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.
This was an unconventional bridge reglue. It required a little extra help on the #wings. But the broken plywood underneath was such a good fitting puzzle piece that it was able to go just fine without doing much prep work, which was the idea since this guitar wasn’t worth a compete and tedious job. If you know what you’re doing, sometimes you can do a professional hack job, keep a customer happy within budget, and bring a guitar back to life for more pickin.
Video coming soon...
•
#prohackjob #arizona #loothing #arizonaguitar #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarluthier #guitarrepair #guitarrestoration #acoustic #acousticguitar #restoration #guitars #custom #sound #customsound #fixit

One of my favorite parts of working on instruments... sometimes when I’m done with a job the instrument gives me a song.
It’s a privilege to play all these instruments when they’re done and completed to my satisfaction. And some of them end up being pretty special. Some of them you’d expect, but some you wouldn’t. And some will give your fingers new songs to play that you wouldn’t have come up with otherwise.
I’m not a #mandolin player, but this awesome old 1919 Gibson A style just taught me a new little chord melody. The #refret turned out perfect. Check out the previous post for before and after.
•
•
#arizona #flagstaff #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarrestoration #acoustic #restoration #sound #customsound #fixit #vintagegibson #mando #vintage #loothing #customsound

Check out this #old label. These frets are basically flat with the fingerboard. They’re tearing out pretty bad, but we’re #gettingthere ... it will clean up just fine.
•
•
#arizona #arizonaguitar #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarluthier #guitarrepair #guitarrestoration #acoustic #acousticguitar #restoration #guitars #custom #sound #customsound #fixit #whatsonyourbench #customshop #vintagemandolin #vintage

I made a new #fret tang nipper... stole the idea from a guy on the YouTubes, but I was tired of my other ones not working right and bending frets, dinging frets, and overall making more work and costing more time than #saving . So this is much more #consistent and the little hole on the side works as a fret holder to do the file touch up after #grinding
•
•
#arizona #arizonaguitar #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarluthier #guitarrepair #guitarrestoration #acoustic #acousticguitar #restoration #guitars #custom #sound #customsound #fixit #whatsonyourbench #customshop #vintageguitar #vintage #refret #frets #loothing #acoustic #tools #newtool

#arizona #arizonaguitar #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarluthier #guitarrepair #guitarrestoration #acoustic #acousticguitar #restoration #guitars #custom #sound #customsound #fixit #whatsonyourbench #repairgallery #customshop #vintageguitar #vintage #vintagemartin #martinguitars

Here’s something I didn’t mention. That @collingsguitars D1 in the last post has a K&K bridge plate #transducer #pickup. This made the bridge reglue a little more involved than normal. I had to make a #custom clamping caul for inside to avoid the pickup heads and to get proper clamping #pressure. #loothin
•
•
#arizona #arizonaguitar #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarluthier #guitarrepair #guitarrestoration #acoustic #acousticguitar #restoration #guitars #wood #sound #customsound #fixit #loothing #whatsonyourbench #customshop

We have this awesome little @kieselguitars in the shop right now. Customer wants some @fishmanmusic #Fluence pickups installed so we had to re-rout the #angled #pickup cavities to #accommodate. This was a situation where having @lindseyguitarworks program it on the CNC was easier than cutting new custom templates on the CNC first and routing by hand. Save a step... but it’s gotta be done #perfectly with one try.
•
•
#arizona #arizonaguitar #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarluthier #guitarrepair #guitars #custom #sound #customsound #whatsonyourbench #customshop #electric #cnc #electricguitar #customization #modification #modify #shred #loothing

Tricky #bridge reglue on @collingsguitars D1... turned out perfect.
•
•
#arizona #arizonaguitar #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarluthier #guitarrepair #guitarrestoration #acoustic #acousticguitar #restoration #guitars #custom #sound #customsound #fixit #customshop #loothing

I have a story for you. And I debated sharing this because it was a weird thing to do.
This is a #charango . A pretty nice one too, made not from an #armadillo like #traditional charangos, but carved from a complete piece of South American hard wood, topped with spruce. It sounded great.
Anyway, the customer really wanted a strap button... badly, so... I had to find a way to get a properly curved block to fit back up in the right spot inside the body and glue it into place before screwing in the strap button.
I didn’t want to crack the thin bowl-carved wood. This was the only option for the little #beauty. I also had to take contour #measurements for shaping the #convex block so it would have a decent glueing surface inside.
These doodad tuning gear clamps were shown to me by an old luthier tech a long time ago. When they come in handy, they can solve some really weird puzzles.
•
•
#arizona #arizonaguitar #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarluthier #guitarrepair #guitarrestoration #acoustic #acousticguitar #restoration #guitars #custom #sound #customsound #fixit #whatsonyourbench #customshop #southamerican

Listening to #karnivool while wiring up this headless 8 string metal monster.
•
#arizona #arizonaguitar #arizonaluthier #luthier #guitar #guitarluthier #guitarrepair #guitarrestoration #repairgallery #fishmanfluence #restoration #guitars #electronics #customsound #fixit #whatsonyourbench #customshop

All cleaned up and ready to party.
•
#yuck #guitarrepair #frets #fingerboard #loothing #prs #electricguitar #guitar
