Brad's Guitar Repair & More

10/23/2024

Recent Refurbishing job I did for a client. It was the Papaw’s guitar they Inherited. It had definitively seen better days. In short, it was completely unplayable, broken, multiple cracks completely through top & back, multiple bad body separations, poorly glued neck separation, lots of “gorilla glue” used in poorly repaired places including the neck joint, broken nut, broken pick guard, badly bent tuning shaft, and the finish was flaking off.
I managed to strip the guitar, properly repair all cracks with underside maple braces and splinted in splines for missing wood, removed/reset the neck, repaired all body separations, made a new nut, made a new pick guard, refinished the sunburst stain and hand painted the white bindings (original binding was painted ).
All and all…. I think it turned out pretty well and is back to playability again. At the very least, this family heirloom will live to see a few more generations now. 👍🏻

11/07/2023

Thanks to my spectacularly beautiful and amazing better half Stephanie Graham I now have this remarkable machine. ❤️❤️
Thank you Baby!! 😘
Now time to make wood chips and dust and crank out some really cool stuff!
(It’s a CNC machine for those who don’t know 😉)

02/19/2023

02/17/2023

A little board splitting… a little planing…. getting a closer.. to ”something”. 🤔???? 😎

What kind of dream project would You like to have custom made? Let me know! Maybe we can make that dream a reality? 👍🏻👍🏻

02/15/2023

Hmmm….. some nice pieces of mahogany on the work bench.
I wonder what I’m about do with them?? 🤔😎
Stay tuned and maybe you’ll find out! 😃👍🏻👍🏻

02/11/2023

Not a guitar build, but a really fun build just the same. A Cajon I built with custom inlays.

02/10/2023

I recently got this Old Girl back up and playing again. A classic 1966 Gibson for a happy customer.
And yes, she plays and sounds as beautiful as she looks! 👍🏻

02/06/2023

Cleaning up the frets after a fret leveling and crowning. Smoothing ‘em out then polishing ‘em up! 🤙🏻