I make and repair stringed instruments in Hamilton Ontario, situated in the magical frost kingdom of Canada. (I don't accept repair requests from the USA- shipping across the border is super expensive and fraught with risk. You should find someone in your state to look after your guitar.) woodfordinstruments.com Hats, Shirts and Stickers: woodford-instruments.creator-spring.com/
He don't muck about do he.. I've dabbled in luterising since it was all fields round here and I love guitars and always have, but Twooford is above and beyond. Pure skills. Pure love of the work. Ta.
Hi pal, regarding your request to submit sources of headstock decals. There is a source here in th U.K. called "Guitar Decals". I have used this company many times, the quality and accuracy is second to none so I highly recommend this source. Here the cost is £9:00 for a standard decal plus you get a spare one, good value in my opinion. Whether the cost of importing these to Canada would be prohibitive I know not, This guy will also make custom decals should you require it. If you have issues sourcing these decals let me know, i will endeavour to assist.
Dude! That headstock job on the ‘63 is a seriously impressive repair. Love the way you used the upper fret area as a radius block for the nut on the ‘71 as well. Kudos!
For scoring / removing the hardened lacker around the frets use: "Tamiya 74097 Fine Craft Saws for Line Carving" and I think that U can use the handle U already have. The difference is that you will be using much less pressure than with the scalpel blade.
OMG! so much laquor! I like the slide out the side method. And yeah, your chisel the corners of the block insert was masterful. I thought you were going to rout out the tuning peg holsed too and give tje tuners new holes altogether. But the end result was really top notch. Thanks for sharing. I have 3 telecasters. I love them. Good show.
I like to imagine its 1988 and I can hear Vicki Gabereau talking on the radio in the background as you pour life back into all these interesting instruments. 🙂
Apropos of very little, I'm pretty sure that by 1963, Kluson tuners were held on with philips screws. As is the string tree. Flathead screws with the wrong taper could have contributed to the splitting of that headstock. In fact that's what it looks like, screws with a straight shank were used versus the originals which have more of like a metal gripping thread, like the screws that hold on the neck. You're a brave man for that work on the older Tele. I knew you could save it!
Hagstrom and Mahogany? Weren't they an English duo who did all those R&B hits in the American style just before disco became a big thing? At least one of their songs was picked up for a Guy Ritchie movie soundtrack.
I might be mistaken here, but I think Dinah Christie used to play one of these little mahogany Gibsons on the charade show “Party Game” back in the late 1970s on good old CHCH-TV in Hamilton. We had a motorized TV antenna on the roof of our house and my brother and I were able to get that station south of the border on a little TV in our attic. (I was lucky growing up in a vicinity where you could get TV from Canada, Mexico and the USA.)
Trust me I get it, I play a 62’ Strat that found me by a chance meeting with a widow, I love my neck a early “V” shaped like no other I’ve played BUT DANG REPLACE TUNERS
Why would someone spend so much money to fix their guitar, then literally reuse bad machine heads BUT EVEN MORE IS KEEP ORIGINAL BUY NEW NECK THATS EXACTLY WHY LEO MADE EM MODULAR
If discovery or another television would do this as a show they would not trust people to enjoy the calm craftmanship. Instead they would throw in drama, screaming at customers and tantrums 😢
Excellent as always! Have a 73 tele with a “Torres” neck stamp myself. Looks more or less identical. Same small frets. I run it with a Musikraft replica neck to play, and keep the original neck as is. Keep the great vids coming!
