Description
Structural Repair, Reconstruction & Restoration
Solstice Guitars was build around our world-class repair shop. We are experienced with intensive and complicated jobs, and we are known to take on projects that others cannot. Neck re-setting, major re-building, we've done it all. We can handle the most technical restoration projects and structural repair jobs. This work always includes setup and action adjustments in addition to the repairs.
Objectives:
- Structural Integrity: The goal with structural repair is always to re-establish the strength and longevity of the instrument. We treat each guitar individually, and our approach always involves in-depth analysis and understanding of your instrument's character, it's history, and it's future life in relation to the player's needs and expectations.
- Correct Geometry: Proper alignment and geometry is crucial to achieving an instrument that plays properly and sounds it's best. When we repair structural issues, correcting the geometry and alignment of the guitar is always a prime consideration.
- Aesthetic Restoration: We are eager to impress with a visual surprise when your instrument returns. We always consider the aesthetic result when approaching large repair jobs, and we'll consult with you about your expectations.
Check the Info Tabs above for more details.
NOTE: This 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. Your final bill will show a flat rate $90 shipping charge, plus any other materials or parts.
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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What do you think? #real #relic
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It’s almost invisible.
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Listening to #karnivool while wiring up this headless 8 string metal monster.
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The #two #tenors …
Strange things compound and waves of occurrence do often occur. These two instruments came in on the same day, from two different clients. Both tenors are bout 100 years old. One #banjo one #tenorguitar #occurrence #serendpity
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To remove, heat thoroughly.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ll be hosting the Luthiers Workshop today at noon over at the Pickin` in the Pines Bluegrass & Acoustic Music Festival
Are you coming out to the amphitheater for the shows? I’ll be outside the fairgrounds area where they have the workshop stage. We’ll be talking about tone woods and tap tones and all sorts of guitar building related matters.
Hope to see you there!
In the meantime, go check out my line of guitars @solsticeguitars …
#guitar #luthier #teaching

Here’s some ouch for ya.
Customer said it was “ex-wife damage.”
Yikes. 😂
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Neck resets are fun?
Honestly I just can’t tell.
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This is the most over braced thing I ever did see. Check out the inside of this thing! #funnyfridays
Wow! 😂
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Here’s the second in a series of posts about a vintage B. Rico flamenco guitar from 1970… “Rico” as in Rich, and “B” as in “BC”… Bernardo Chavez Rico… BC Rich.
Here we’ve removed the top. It was a little nasty, but the sides are untouched and re-binding will turn out well.
I believe this guitar was made by Bernie himself. He was a known flamenco player, a known builder of flamenco guitars, and he’d been building guitars out of his father’s shop for a decade by 1970, the date on this label.
It’s also around this time he started doing more with steel strings and adopting the name change for the brand. Just as he and his father were starting to see more popularity with electric solid body guitars, it’s said that his father was also producing guitars with builders from Paracho, but that was supposedly in the 50’s and early 60’s.
This guitar was made one year after Bernie made his first electric. And this is one of the last nylon guitars with the original name from his original shop in East Los Angeles.
Bernie saw it coming and he was perfectly positioned for the rock and metal scenes that dominated the late 70s and early 80s. B.C. Rich became a huge name brand in the world of guitars.
Anyway, we’re doing a full re-top on this guitar and bringing it back to life. To learn how this all got started, go visit the last post about this.
We have a nice cedar top prepped and seamed. Almost ready to install the prefab rosette from @luthiersmerchantile
Go check us out @solsticeguitars if you’re interested in custom #acoustic and #electric #handcrafted #guitars!
Interested in this guitar? Keep following us here and message me when it’s ready for sale!
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