Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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2007 Seagull S6 Slim Dread [4.7 lbs] :: lower saddle and cut string ramps in bridge.
The action was lowered by straightening the excessive relief in the neck via the truss rod and lowering the saddle. With such low saddle exposure above the bridge, I had to cut string ramps to increase the downward pressure of the strings to prevent buzzes and help drive the top.
2007 Seagull S6 Slim Dread [4.7 lbs] :: bad scarf joint.
A portion of the headstock's scarf joint is coming free so I worked some glue into it and clamped it. The owner brought this in for a setup but I'm including this repair too. Just can't help myself.
1987 Carvin DC-150 :: stripping the cutaways.
Here I'm sanding off the poly finish in the cutaways by hand. I didn't want to spread anymore of this poly dust around the shop than necessary, so I tied up this vacuum rig. Works pretty well!
"Fender" Strat [7.8 lbs] :: late-night quick setup.
A player stopped in last night as he recently noticed that his Strat was beginning to fret out with big bends on the upper frets. I removed the neck, tightened the truss rod, and raised the saddles back up to the original action. This helped clean up the sustain in his bends.
I love being able to support gigging players.
Note this is a Chandler Industries body and a Warmoth neck. I didn't have time to pull the pick guard and check the pickups.
1987 Carvin DC-150 :: strip and refinish.
Here I'm sanding off the clear poly finish to prep it for a transparent nitro sunburst. At first I tried the heat gun / pallet knife trick but it was not going very well. Like, at all. Could be that the finish is fairly thin (for poly) and my knife had a thing for trying to gouge into the quilted maple. No good.
Luckily this is a flat top and back, so sanding goes fairly quickly. But my poor little compressor can't feed the orbital sander for very long so I have to take frequent breaks to let it build up pressure again. This places a larger compressor firmly on the shop wish-list.
I hope to get this into the booth this weekend.
