Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
2002 Gibson ES-333 [8.4 lbs] :: intermittent pickup & broken tuners
The neck pickup was cutting in and out on this hollowbody so that usually means you have fish the electronics out through the f-hole or pickup rout to clean / repair. To my surprise I found an access cover in the back! This is the first Gibson hollowbody with an access panel to come across my bench. As much as I don't like the idea of them on hollows, it makes resoldering this broken neck pickup lead and cleaning the pots much, much easier. The bass-side tuners were also previously repaired by someone supergluing the covers. This is always a temporary fix and the time had come to replace them. Tuning is now much more stable with a new set of tuners.
2001 Gibson SG :: broken strap button screws
This SG has been in the shop a few times before for a broken control cavity and to correct a failing headstock repair. Now it is in for a broken strap button screw. Actually, two broken screws as one was broken before. I'll need to make a couple different size screw extractors to get these out.
Look for a blog post coming soon with more details on this guitar.
2003 Gibson Les Paul Double Cut Faded [7.0 lbs] :: headstock break
This was a classic Gibson headstock break repair. Photos of the initial break here and photos of the clamping setup here.
Below is the repaired headstock without any finish touchups. Note that this break happened one year ago and was just repaired last week. I'm very happy with how well the break closed.
1978 Fender Tele Thinline [7.6 lbs] :: neck realignment.
This Tele has the classic 70's 3-bolt neck joint and the neck was slightly biased to the treble side (the high e string was too close to the edge of the fingerboard). The bolts were loosened and the neck shifted towards the bass side to correct this. Tele Thinlines originally come with the wide range humbuckers but this one was modded years ago with Seymour Duncan SH-3 Stag Mag's with push-pull coil taps.
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