Description
The Custom Pro Setup
Tired of fighting your guitar? Want to achieve the maximum potential from your instrument?
Our customized professional setup produces amazing improvements in tone and playability. Through meticulous detailing at every adjustment point, we customize the action setup to your individual playing style, making your guitar play smoother and sound better than you've ever experienced.
Guitar setups from the factory are rushed and not completely detailed. Instruments also shift over time, especially when new. Our Custom Pro Setup includes fine adjustments to the entire instrument, fret leveling and polishing, and fabrication of new parts like nuts and saddles for intonation corrections and tone enhancement. We set the neck relief, dress your frets perfectly, give it complete maintenance and conditioning, and so much more. Be sure to check the Additional Info tab above.
Objectives:
- Perfect Fret Leveling & Profiling: leveled, beveled & polished frets for better action, intonation, note articulation, less fret noise, smoother feeling neck edges.
- Intonation Correction & Adjustments: may include fabrication of a new bone saddle and nut, customized and cut for intonation enhancements specific to your instrument and hands. We even include saddle slot re-routing if necessary for better intonation placement at the bridge.
- Perfect Action Setup for Your Playing Style: proper neck relief, action height, nut slot depths & spacing, and intonation sweetening for your individual playing style and preferences.
- Full Servicing & Buffing: fretboard conditioning, buffing, cleaning, gear adjustments, oiling & minor touch-ups. Your guitar will come back looking as beautiful as it plays.
Check the Info tabs above for more details.
NOTE: This initial deposit will be applied to your final repair bill after materials and shipping are calculated. We require this deposit to send you our prepaid shipping label and start the process.
Hey @guitarspecialistinc , the guy with the glue cannon worked on this one too. He even managed to do some target practice with a bridge pin and blasted it to the tail block. Impressive skills.

I thought you’d be interested in seeing this guitar. I have a customer who keeps bringing me these things damnit! Lol.
But this is by far the nicest one I’ve seen from his collection… or really anywhere since this is only like the 5th harp guitar I’ve actually worked on.
Either way, this instrument was the real deal! Video coming in a reel form soon soon.
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Some good ole fretwork on display here. Having properly crowned frets will give you better tone and note articulation.
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What do you think? #real #relic
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Starting with the hardest one to reach. Moving on the the easier three now.
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This is the first in a post series about a cool project we just started. But before I tell you more about this old #flamenco guitar, I wanted to tell you what’s been going on in the shop lately, and why I won’t be posting here as much in the future…
We are focusing our #energy on making @solsticeguitars and ramping up plans for 2022. So please go follow us there if you don’t already!
Now, on with this #restoration job!
This guitar was made by the namesake for BC Rich guitars back in the late 60’s. This is an original flamenco guitar completed in 1970 by Bernardo Chavez Rico, i.e. BC Rich. Bernardo and then his son made the company into a major producer of electric guitars and it became the huge brand we all know during the 80’s.
So, what’s up with this repair? Long story short… we’re doing a complete re-top. Whoever buys it will also get the original top along with the guitar.
Speaking of long stories, here’s the gist. I’ve had this guitar for over 20 years. When I bought it there was a lot of top damage from years of aggressive playing. The plan was to refinish and epoxy fill the deep fingernail divots.
Back in 2014 I had an employee start the sanding process. When I wasn’t looking he took an orbital sander to the thing and wore right through the top at the waist. And the rest of it was paper thin. I think he was trying to sand out all the divots and dings… or he was trying the Willie Nelson the thing. Anyway it was a bummer.
After that I just put it away and tried to forget about it… until recently. After much consideration I’ve decided to retop it with my new apprentice. One of you #fanboy BC Rich cult members is going to love this thing when it’s done.
Message me for more info.
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Been a while. Posting some old follow-ups. Here’s that strat from the previous post. Customer wanted it to look “somewhat relic-ed but also repaired.” I dunno. 🥸 At least it plays like a dream again. And the customer got his retribution from the incident with his X. 😬😂
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Here’s some ouch for ya.
Customer said it was “ex-wife damage.”
Yikes. 😂
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Gonna be hefty setup job right here.
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Ok. Getting back to this re-top project on the vintage B. Rico #flamenco guitar from the earliest days of #bcrich … braces are prepped and the new cedar top is seamed and rosetted. We ordered a frefab rosette from Luthiers Mercantile Int`l and it looks great.
If you’re interested in the history of this guitar go check out the previous posts.
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This truss rod is bunk. Fingerboard removal went pretty well.
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So this ended up not working sorry to say. I had a solid continuity reading from end to end. I’m trying to run DC current through this truss rod to heat it up so I can release the glue and pull it out. After 5 minutes I was getting basically no heat increase though. I think there’s just too much resistance. Any thoughts?
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