TK's Guitar and Amp Repair

25/09/2026

Hey folks, sorry but my repair queue will be closed until the start of November. Once again, I can barely walk around in the shop. If you have already arranged to bring something in, that still stands. If you have an emergency requiring a quick fix, I can probably still help out, depending on what is required. Thanks for your patience!

15/09/2026

Older Hot-Rod Deluxe with toasted pcb at low voltage supply area - they nearly all do this eventually. Better to get it sorted sooner rather than later. This one had a previous failed repair and was missing pads, so I installed turrets, and linked/reinforced each damaged trace with bus wire. This time, the repair will outlast the amp!

14/09/2026

Couldn’t choose a caption so here are three:

The glamorous part of the job

No patina was harmed during the de-rusting of this late 60s Bassman iron

Not a sponsor for Penetrol

10/09/2026

Playing around with the pot position on this wah pedal, for (subjectively) best sound in the pot’s range vs pedal position. Anybody need an electric jaw harp player for their next international tour?

09/09/2026

01/09/2026

Rust and assorted goo (the bad kind)

24/08/2026

1968 Fender Bassman. Needs a service. There’s some decent previous rework in there, but it needs a lot of cleaning and rust removal. Also, the power transformer belongs in a Deluxe Reverb! I’m thinking strip and rebuild, or strip and rebuild are my two most sensible options here. Check that steel back panel!

21/08/2026

Cold solder joint at the fuse connector for the heater supply on this Fender Super-Sonic, caused burny smelly ungoodness. This area can cause a couple of different no-sound faults. The fuse holder contacts themselves are not really fit for purpose, plus the fast-ons for the secondary are also a point of failure, due to the high amount of current drawn by the valve heaters. On this particular one, the fuse itself also turned into a resistor over time, instead of failing open. These things will be bypassed and hard-wired where appropriate, with fusible resistors installed for the artificial centre-tap to act as circuit protection instead.

13/08/2026

Replacing the missing, stripped nutserts/rivnuts on an old Super Lead, so it can be secure in its cab once again