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West Guitarworks

Stringed instrument setup, repair, and restoration shop in San Diego, CA.

01/11/2026

Made myself a and clamp sandwich. Seriously impressed with these Northfield clamps. The Waterloo model is great for crowded soundholes and I can’t wait to reglue some bridges with these!

01/09/2026

Stainless refret on this nice black mirror

01/03/2026

Here’s the second refret in a batch of 70’s poly board jobs keeping the original finish. The frets came out nice and clean sideways, until they didn’t. Those last six frets were so short (some as low as .020”) and buried in finish that only way they were coming out was up, and not without a fight. This was the more challenging of the two but I’m happy with the results. Once again, big ups to for the sage advice on these two jobs 🙌

12/27/2025

70s poly board P bass refret keeping the original finish! Super stoked how this patience tester turned out. Big shoutout to who acted as the yoda on my back while I traipsed through the swamps of finish on this fretboard and another 70s poly board refret (this was the milder of the two. Peep the original frets swimming in poly in the last slide 🏊‍♂️

12/21/2025

Took these stainless frets up to a mirror polish to challenge the jeweled side dots to a shine off. Who do you think won?

12/18/2025

Getting these frets in this 70s poly board P bass nice and easy thanks to and Accept no imitations!

12/09/2025

Suuuuuper minty 72 Jazz Bass came through the shop for a setup so I snagged some photographic notes. Everything still original down to the foam mute on the bridge cover. Also wanted to point out the coiled cable burn you see on so many of these guitars! You can see the culprit in that picture of the case. Super fun bass that I’m glad I got to spend some time with.

Address

2031 Commercial Street
San Diego, CA
92113

Telephone

+16198843103

Website

http://www.westguitarworks.com/

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