Luthier's Statement
Dear Repair Customer,
Your guitar can reach a new level of playability and tone. Mass produced instruments need individual attention to perform their best. Even handmade instruments need work sometimes. An experienced and knowledgeable luthier can do things that make your instrument sound better and give you improved performance. Guitars and other string instruments are primarily made of wood, and some glue. The organic material will expand and contract with seasonal humidity and temperature changes. Musical instruments are-- by nature-- delicate and sensitive to these seasonal weather changes. Most guitars will benefit significantly from regular adjustments.
If you're tired of fighting your instrument and you want perfect playing action, give us a call.
My personal love and focus is on finely crafted steel-string and nylon-string acoustic guitars. I also have an affinity for electric modifications, and I'm highly experienced with electric guitars & basses. Fret work is a specialty and we do a lot of it here-- standard fret-leveling and minor dressing, and full re-fretting and fingerboard restoration.
Some issues can arise that are beyond our control, especially with instruments that haven't been well-cared for. I encourage clients to by picky, but practical. I will go to great extremes to assure that you are completely satisfied with our service.
~ Ryan R. Elewaut, founder & owner
Some good ole fretwork on display here. Having properly crowned frets will give you better tone and note articulation.
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It’s alive!
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#dust
I don’t like controversy for the sake of controversy. But I want to speak up because this issue affects my industry and independent builders.
Gibson has been attacking our friends in the luthier industry with dubious legal trademark threats and greedy corporate scare tactics. Their practices are attempting to put some of the best independent builders out of business. Instead of competing by building better and new products, Gibson has become a trademark troll.
In joining @ianhatesguitars and hopefully other repair luthiers, I am boycotting repair work on all new Gibson instruments purchased in the last year.
And I hope you won’t buy a new Gibson until they change their tactics with trademark issues. If you bring me a new Gibson I will tell you to call them directly to resolve the issue, even if it’s just a setup.
This is an issue of ethics and scale. Gibson is happy to threaten a lawsuit they know they could easily loose in court. They also know they’re going after builders who can’t defend themselves legally against a corporate giant.
Our small and tight-knit industry has always worked a little different, and we've long resisted toxic business practices. But humanity and decency don’t seem to be part of the standards at companies like Gibson.
For the full article and more details visit my website.
customsoundinstruments.com
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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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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.
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#squeeze
#glue #guitarrepair #arizonaluthier
Here’s an #unfortunate situation. This Martin is here for a neck reset. Someone in the past chopped the fingerboard extension! 😡 (this is a hack way to get at a neck joint for resetting, probably happened 20 years ago.)
This created #unstable reinforcement of the overall neck joint area, and how it absorbs and distributes string tension into the body. This was the primary contributing factor with the #cracking of the head block inside, and the separation of the top from the head block, which you can see in the movement here. You can also see the #compression cracking along where the #fingerboard extension was...
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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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#cleaned up and #shielded with a couple #mods.
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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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@luthiersmercantile
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Something tells me I’m not the first one who’s been in here.
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Customer was adamant about staining the fingerboard black during the #refret. Evo Gold super jumbo frets on an original custom shop ESP @espguitars ... this guitar shipped all the way from Hong Kong. On its way back now.
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
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OUR MINIMUM CHARGE IS $50
While many guitars need to have multiple repairs performed, some "fixes" are included in the price of others. A complete list of repair pricing is impossible but a general price-list is shown below.
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Your satisfaction is our primary goal. We warranty our work for 30 days. Additional fine tuning is included in this period. If something isn't right or your expectations haven't been met for any reason, please let us know. Adverse reactions due to environmental issues and negligent care are not covered under this warranty. We keep our shop within proper humidity & temperature ranges. It is best to keep string instruments between 40%-45% humidity and around 60-80(f) degrees. We have no control over the the environmental conditions your instrument will experience once it leaves our shop. The stability of the environment, along with the sensitivity of the instrument and that of the player will determine how often adjustments need to be made. If you need additional tweaking please contact us.
