McGrath Music Guitar Repair

McGrath Music Guitar Repair Expert repair of guitars and all stringed instruments including violin, cello, bass, mandolin, etc.

08/12/2025

I've been running some tests for a YouTube daily live stream from the shop!
So far everything looks good and works properly.
I'll post a reminder with a link when I actually go live with content.
Thanks for your continued patronage and support!

1968 Gibson ES335, all original, in for some much needed maintenance.
06/03/2025

1968 Gibson ES335, all original, in for some much needed maintenance.

Guitars from around the world in the shop this week.Peru, Sweden and Hoboken, New Jersey!
03/20/2025

Guitars from around the world in the shop this week.
Peru, Sweden and Hoboken, New Jersey!

Very proud and grateful for my little shop and all my happy clients.Thank you to everyone who has come to me for help or...
02/04/2025

Very proud and grateful for my little shop and all my happy clients.
Thank you to everyone who has come to me for help or advice.

Rewiring a hollow body is a bit like building a ship in a bottle
12/20/2024

Rewiring a hollow body is a bit like building a ship in a bottle

Today I'm playing electrical engineer.I had to create a wiring scheme for a client using something called a Freeway swit...
12/20/2024

Today I'm playing electrical engineer.
I had to create a wiring scheme for a client using something called a Freeway switch.
It looks like a typical 3 position guitar switch you'd find on a Les Paul but instead of just 3 positions you have 6.
I spent quite a bit of time to design a wiring scheme that can do the usual pickup combinations neck/both/bridge on one side,
while the other side presented the challenge of:
1. Both pickups together, out of phase
2. Both pickups together, half out of phase
3. Both pickups together, "power" out of phase

The 3rd combo was not possible due to the limits of the switch, but I was able to muster one last option which will be to split the bridge pickup from humbucking dual coil to a single coil.

Phew!

Another bridge from scratch for an old Gibson made "Kalamazoo" with Brazilian rosewood.
09/17/2024

Another bridge from scratch for an old Gibson made "Kalamazoo" with Brazilian rosewood.

1960's Gibson SG on the bench today!
09/10/2024

1960's Gibson SG on the bench today!

Replica ebony bridge I made from scratch for this 60s Martin acoustic. Neck was also reset to the proper angle. I hope t...
09/07/2024

Replica ebony bridge I made from scratch for this 60s Martin acoustic. Neck was also reset to the proper angle. I hope the client will be happy with it.

Beginnings stages of a rather intensive repair.The butt end of this somewhat rare Martin D21 was crunched during shippin...
08/23/2024

Beginnings stages of a rather intensive repair.
The butt end of this somewhat rare Martin D21 was crunched during shipping and among other damage had its tail block broken in half.
This will have to be replaced in addition to repairing the back and sides adjacent. Removing the back and broken block were steps 1 and 2.

Another successful "decapitation"!Resetting the neck on this 1971 Martin D-28
03/02/2024

Another successful "decapitation"!
Resetting the neck on this 1971 Martin D-28

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