Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
Neck reset final fit :: 1969 Guild Mark III
Whew! Guild neck resets are always a little more involved but this guy is just about ready to glue up. Guilds use a shallow dovetail angle so the fit is more critical than others. Time to buff out the finish repairs around the joint, glue, clamp and drink a beer.
2001 Taylor 310 :: bridge re-glue
Early pre-dawn bridge re-glue on a Taylor 310 dreadnought. I'm loving the moldable plastic pellets (InstaMorph) I picked up weeks ago for making custom clamping cauls. The cauls are shown above on the outer wings, backed with plywood for rigidity and to keep the clamps from slipping.
Fret end dress :: 2011 G&L SC-2 [7.1 lbs]
When a guitar is exposed to low humidity, often the fingerboard will move (shrink) and the frets become proud of the neck (since they are metal and do not contract with humidity). Unbound fingerboards like this can become especially uncomfortable on the left hand so the frets were ground back flush with the neck and polished out. I'm a big fan of the dynamic range of these G&L "Magnetic Field Design" pickups. The "Belair Green" finish looks pretty sharp too.
Cooking off a lifting bridge :: 2001 Taylor 310
Using a combination of an infrared heat lamp, a foil-wrapped cardboard shield and a palette knife to correct a failing bridge glue joint.
Loose frets :: 1960's Teisco May Queen
Just about every fret end on this neck is "sprung" and needs to be glued and clamped back down. Not ideal, but it will hopefully make it more playable and save the player some cash on a total refret (which it could use as the frets are fairly low).
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