Fairbuilt Guitar Company - Services




	Fairbuilt Guitar Company offers repair, maintenance, and restoration, and custom shop design services. Click here to view our Price List. Use the menu below to view examples of our work: Binding \| Braces \| Bridges \| Buzzes \| Care and Cleaning \| Left to Right Conversions \| Cracks and Damage Fingerboard \| Finish \| Frets \| Headstock Repair \| Intonation \| Neck Resets \| Nuts \| Pickguards \| Pickups Restoration Projects \| Saddles \| Setups \| Strap Buttons \| Tailpiece \| Trussrod \| Tuners Binding Examples coming soon. return to menu Braces Ex. 1 - 1939 Martin D-18 The left side shows X-Braces that have come loose and have been poorly re-glued in a previous repair. The right side shows a split back brace. Ex. 2 - Kona Style 1 Hawaiian Guitar Removing the back allowed me to repair and replace some bracing on the top and back. return to menu Bridges Ex. 1 - Old all-mahogany Gibson We replaced this plastic bridge with an ebony bridge to correct poor intonation and tone. return to menu Buzzes Examples coming soon. return to menu Care and Cleaning Examples coming soon. return to menu Left to Right Conversions Examples coming soon. return to menu Cracks and Damage Ex. 1 - Old Baystate Parlor Guitar return to menu Fingerboard Ex. 1 - Scalloping Stratocaster Fingerboard return to menu Finish Ex. 1 - Gibson ES 175 This guitar had a previously repaired headstock that needed refinishing. Ex. 2 - LoPrinzi Steel String Refinishing previously "refinished" top. return to menu Frets Ex. 1 - 1929 Martin O-18 with bar frets return to menu Headstock Repair Ex. 1 - Martin D-28 Its been "fixed at". return to menu Intonation Examples coming soon. return to menu Neck Resets Ex. 1 - Bacon and Day Banjo Ex. 2 - LoPrinzi Steel String with Spanish Heel Resetting the neck on this style of neck-joint requires removing the binding, separating the back from the neck-block, setting the desired angle, reglueing the back, trimming off the excess wood, reattaching the binding, and touching up the finish. return to menu Nuts Examples coming soon. return to menu Pickguards A common repair on older guitars is removing the pickguard, finishing underneath, and readhering the old one or replacing it with a new one. Ex. 1 - Gibson 1949 J-45 Ex. 2 - 1961 Gibson Flattop return to menu Pickups Examples coming soon. return to menu Restoration Ex. 1 - Larson Brothers Harp Guitar In Progress. Ex. 2 - Bay State Brazillian Rosewood Parlor Guitar In Progress. return to menu Saddles Examples coming soon. return to menu Setups Examples coming soon. return to menu Strap Buttons Examples coming soon. return to menu Tailpiece Ex. 1 - 1939 Gibson L-7 We made this custom tailpiece when the original broke and were unable to locate a suitable replacement. Its made honduran rosewood and mounted with a violin style tail gut. return to menu Trussrod Ex. 1 - R.L. Givens Mandolin #600 This mandolin had no trussrod. We installed one accessed from inside the body. return to menu Tuners Examples coming soon. return to menu
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