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A regular client with an interesting and impressive collection of Gibson guitars, asked us if we could replace the crown inlays on his Custom Shop Historic Les Paul.

Robbie McIntosh ( The Pretenders, Paul McCartney, Kevin McDermott, Talk Talk, Norah Jones, John Mayer) was in the workshop recently. He had a slight problem with the nut and the pickup system on his workhorse Gibson J40.

The gentleman who owns this quite nicely made Eastman mandolin found that the extended fingerboard compromised his playing style. He asked if it would be possible to shorten the thing.

Custom Inlay Work Here. I handcut lightning bolt style inlays before hand routing this SGs ebony fingerboard to match the Gibson Custom Shop Signature model.

Here we fabricated a new bridge for this 1970s Ovation Balladeer.

Jimmy has just restored our Martin D28 having had her in intensive care for a few weeks. Such an amazing, delicate and dedicated operation.

This 1970s Gibson J45…was literally falling apart…loose braces…cracks on all faces of the body with an especially bad one at the side of the neck along the body towards the soundhole and through to the bridge.

Fancy something different? Listen up all you Nils Cline fans….Here we’re fitting the amazing looking Charlie Christian style pickup into a Jaguar.

Our very good customer Stevie Gilles loved his Larrivee guitar but changing broken strings during the gig was, to use his phrase, ” rippin’ his knittin’ “…he gave me the job to solve his problem despite me helpfully telling him to improve his technique and stop breaking strings!