Oct 24 2016
Building a great acoustic guitar is tricky business. One has to find the perfect balance between two opposing ideas: build a guitar that sounds good, or build a guitar that lasts. If the guitar is too solidly built, it won’t have any resonance and will sound terrible; if the guitar is too flimsy, it will collapse …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/making-an-acoustic-bridge-for-a-vintage-martin/
Aug 10 2016
We are proud to announce that we are now an official dealer for Jim Dunlop strings! We restring a LOT of guitars, and we’ve found Dunlop strings to be among our favorites. They’re built really well, are extremely consistent, are generously long (handy for long scale & hollow body instruments), made in America, and the …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/strange-guitarworks-welcomes-dunlop-strings/
Jul 30 2016
We have the greatest job in the world: we play with guitars all day, and oftentimes get our grubby mitts on vintage instruments that we wouldn’t ever get to see as mere mortals. Occasionally we see vintage gear that looks almost brand new, but most times when an older instrument comes into our shop it …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/rebuilding-a-vintage-gibson-acoustic-guitar/
Jun 17 2016
We do a lot of work for The Revivalists. Three of their seven members play electric, acoustic, and/or bass guitars, and as they seem to play them pretty hard and tour a LOT, the band keeps us pretty busy. This week Zach brought in his vintage Guild Starfire, which had it’s headstock broken and then …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/fixing-a-broken-headstock-for-the-revivalists/
May 13 2016
Hey everyone, Aaron here. I’ve been repairing your instruments alongside Benjamin for the last 4 months, and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting many of you in the shop by now. I’ve even seen some of you out on gigs around town! It’s been great getting to know you, the working musicians of New Orleans, …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/a-word-from-aaron/
Mar 28 2016
Have you ever wondered how to relic a guitar? Well, wonder no more – we can teach you how to relic a guitar in one easy step, with no tools nor experience necessary! Here’s the secret no other guitar tech is willing to tell you: in order to give your guitar that amazing, broken in …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/how-to-relic-a-guitar-in-one-easy-step/
Mar 09 2016
We generally consider ourselves rather fearless when it comes to working on guitars. Over the years, we’ve done some pretty crazy things at the request of some of our more experimental clients. Most of these things don’t really scare us, but occasionally a little pinch of fear is important: there’s no easier way to completely ruin a guitar …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/routing-for-a-p-pickup/
Jan 22 2016
Fixing broken headstocks are a regular part of life in a guitar repair shop. Most times people bring their guitars to us, thinking that a broken headstock means the death of their beloved guitar. The thing is, most headstock breaks aren’t nearly as bad as people tend to think, and we can resuscitate their instrument with relative …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/repairing-a-broken-headstock-with-an-overlay/
Jan 08 2016
Oh man, I have been looking forward to this day for over three years. Today is the day that my dear friend Aaron Younce joins me at Strange Guitarworks. (This is the most rockin’ picture of him I have. First impressions are important.) I first met Aaron in San Francisco, and we worked side by …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/introducing-aaron-younce/
Jan 06 2016
Here’s something you don’t see every day: The story is that a former cellist started playing guitar, and it just felt more natural to play the guitar vertically. Someone helpfully installed a cello endpin, but unfortunately didn’t do it correctly, and the pin was very unstable and wobbled all over the place. Now, I don’t …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.strangeguitarworks.com/cello-guitar-end-pin-fix/
