A great Ibanez custom guitar I am checking out for a friend!

LUis's Guitar

My friend from work Luis gave me this guitar with 2 broken tuners this summer.  It was aweful to try to tune it with plyers.  When I looked it up online I noticed it didn't seem to be pretty standard tuners.  They were cheap ones and cost 25 bucks just for one.  Fortunately, my guitar guy had a bunch of old japanese steel string tuners that I could take parts from.  This guitar is a classical so I just needed to attatch the classical posts and wheels to the steel string vintage tuners.  These were nice!  They are way more nostalgic looking and only needed a lil 3 in 1 oil and some tuning experience.  They look much better and I noticed the cheap Ibanez were converted into all these little pieces that were unnecessary crap!  Now I love Classical guitars too.  My friend didn't have the dough for the repair yet so I have been playing it in my apartment and in bed watching tv too.  The thin belly of these type of acoustic make it really cozy!  I even wrote a cool song that I performed one late night at a jam!

MOe's Guitar!

Heres a guitar I fixed up for my friend Moe! His nephew and niece really loved to see his newly working equiptment!

before

Before, Great Combo with CH1 Chorus!

Frets/board Cleaned and filed!

Pickups cleaned with lime/salt and scraper

Beauty! Gorilla tape the broken Pickguard!

I've got much better at crowning frets!

It was truely a great combo! Really Punk!

Dizzle's Acoustic

I did so much to this guitar over the years! For good and for bad.  It was my brother's in high school, and later my I picked it up when he left it at my dad's.  I unfortunately tuned it too high and messed up the bridge and got it a belly bulge!  Later, when I enrolled in guitar at Utep again I began to restore it.  It was bad.  The action was like 1/2 ".  I then took off the bridge with a hot knife I believe.  The bulge was bad, so I scraped and gouge out the guitar to make a level surface.  Then I got a new bridge and wood glued it and wood filled the surrounding area.  I used deep C clamps from Lowe's to adhere it to wood. I also filed a new nut for the neck to make the height of the string action sublime! Also, I filed down the huge frets to strat modern level.  Very smooth!  When it was all done I never painted it though.  I used it for the last part of the semester in my Utep guitar class and passed my final with it all ratty looking!  Later, I got my Ibanez steel string and it was set aside for a while...  Then, this past spring I saw my good friend Dizzle was in need of something to practice on and I hooked him up as he did me a lot of times!  This was contingent that he would actually paint it with the stain I had for years for it.  A week later it was his!  No worries tho, my bro still has my original Yamaha from High school so he is cool!

Potential 1953 Gibson Amp

This amp here a music store owner had me scope out.  At first it was playing really nicely, really nice but eventually fizzled out.  My main job was to figure out what it was as I was aware how much work it would need.  Whoever fixes an amp this old should jus buy it!  Neway after searchin into the wee hours I found the amp to be from as far back as '53 and was almost identical layout and board and caps to old Gibsons! This matched the date on its old speaker.  It was not a Fender tweed as they hope but far more unique.  It even had a tremolo that had a knob called frequency and an odd mic input.  Very cool.