Jake Wildwood & Co

Jake Wildwood & Co Sales, repairs, and restoration of vintage and antique fretted and bowed musical instruments.

My business is a curious mixture of my repair work, blogging and photos, sales, personal interest, history, and blathering in and around vintage, antique, and curious old musical instruments. I mostly work on various guitars, mandolins, banjos, and ukuleles but also have an appetite for odd ethnic instruments from around the world and bizarre electric gear.

06/07/2026

For sale at the site!

1966 Epiphone FT-79 Texan (Gibson) slope dreadnought guitar

06/07/2026

For sale at the site!

2018 Fender Road Worn Jazz Bass electric bass guitar w/Lollar DC pickups

06/07/2026

For sale at the site!

2025 Dingwall SP1 Super B fanned-fret electric bass guitar

06/07/2026

For sale at the site!

1962 Danelectro Guitarlin (Longhorn) electric guitar w/‘60s Gibson mini-humbuckers

06/07/2026

For sale at the site!

1899 Vega 00-size Brazilian rosewood guitar

Workshop outtakes — 2000 L.R. Bates “Irish” bouzoukiThis is a consignor’s instrument — part of a pair made by the builde...
05/31/2026

Workshop outtakes — 2000 L.R. Bates “Irish” bouzouki

This is a consignor’s instrument — part of a pair made by the builder — but no knows about the builder! It needed some work to get it playing its best but it’s a lovely box now that it’s done-up!

We had a buyer signed-up for it beforehand and he zipped right over to snag it as soon as it was done! I can’t blame him. 👹

Workshop outtakes — 1980s Casio DG-10 synth digital guitarI mean, it’s a masterpiece. This got traded-in and took it t...
05/31/2026

Workshop outtakes — 1980s Casio DG-10 synth digital guitar

I mean, it’s a masterpiece. This got traded-in and took it to band practice that night. Jose, Ancel and I lost a ton of time that afternoon making idiotic and wonderful noise…

Workshop outtakes — 1967 Fender Coronado II hollowbody electric guitarThis was a while-you-wait job for a certified “fri...
05/31/2026

Workshop outtakes — 1967 Fender Coronado II hollowbody electric guitar

This was a while-you-wait job for a certified “friend of the shop” today… level/dress of the frets, cleaning, 3-string-tree add, fitting for a replacement whammy arm, and mod to the original bridge to give it more-traditional adjustment and stability. What a lot of folks don’t know is that the “spring” in the whammy is actually a flat piece of spring steel. I couldn’t help but love this guitar just a bit too much…

Workshop outtakes — 1920s Kay/Stromberg Voisinet 8” resonator banjo ukuleleFixed this one up for an “extended shop famil...
05/30/2026

Workshop outtakes — 1920s Kay/Stromberg Voisinet 8” resonator banjo ukulele

Fixed this one up for an “extended shop family” customer, giving it a level/dress of the frets, new Gotoh tuners, a new bridge, side dots, neck brace reinforcement on the inside, and mild damping here and there to control its bark. It’s pretty slick, now.

Workshop outtakes — 1990 Larrivee C-05 cutaway small jumbo guitarDoon of owns this guitar and I had forgotten that I ha...
05/30/2026

Workshop outtakes — 1990 Larrivee C-05 cutaway small jumbo guitar

Doon of owns this guitar and I had forgotten that I had it here at some point! It’s been long in the tooth but I finally gave it a neck reset, level/dress of the frets, mild crack cleating, and setup work. This thing handles a lot like a Froggy Bottom and has a clean, round tone.

Address

645 VT-100 S
Rochester, VT
05767

Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm

Telephone

+18022308161

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