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A major upgrade for this Warwick bass by way of a 3 band switchable Bartolini active bass preamp with side fitting jack and new recessed Warwick 3D bridge and tailpiece.

We recently bought a historic Guild A150 jazz style guitar. Unfortunately the fingerboard inlays had perished and were discoloured and badly misshapen. We managed to find a solution and were able to restore the guitar back to prime condition. Here are the pictures of the job.

As part of the Global Furch Family, we are regularly invited to visit the factory to witness advances in design, quality and production and also to inspect new instrument designs and innovation at first hand. We recently travelled to the Czech Republic to visit the factory where we would meet old friends from our previous visits and  be introduced to many new and interesting innovations. Come on our journey through the factory and witness some of the processes involved in making a world class acoustic guitar where innovation and modern technology work hand in glove with top level skill and supreme craftsmanship.

As Mogwai head out on a short European Tour they drafted us in to tech their guitars and gargantuan pedal boards to ensure everything goes more or less to plan.

After all when you're performing in venues like Teatro Panoramica Templi in Agrigento, Sicily you don't want the neck to fall off your guitar mid set! We regularly service Stuart's guitars and Dominics basses so there weren't many problems really.

These 2 old timers needed a bit of TLC to help their playability and tuning stability. As always we were more than happy to lend our skills.

Read all about the fascinating history we uncovered when we took over the shop in 2018, Over a 3 month period we redesigned the interior and transformed it into Glasgow West End's leading Guitar and Music Store. 

You can peruse an archive which is  a "snapshot in time" photo gallery depicting when the shop was a leading Travel Agent in Glasgow's West End.

You can also see how we carried out work to restore the shop interior back to how it was circa 1910 , in the process discovering who worked in the shop at that time.

You can view many photographs of the extensive refit we carried out unpeeling the layers to reveal this history and in turn transforming the space into the fabulous guitar shop you see today!

Here's a beautiful 1962 Fiesta Red Fender Jaguar that the current owner wanted a replacement pickup fitted into!

Recently we had Raymond from Teenage Fanclub in the store, he brought in Norman’s vintage, original sunburst 1971 Gibson 335 which required quite a bit of work on the frets and bridge in particular.

In addition, I discovered a lateral crack in neck which I had to address before I carried out the refret!

A regular client with an interesting and impressive collection of Gibson guitars, asked us if we could replace the crown inlays on his Custom Shop Historic Les Paul.

Robbie McIntosh ( The Pretenders, Paul McCartney, Kevin McDermott, Talk Talk, Norah Jones, John Mayer) was in the workshop recently. He had a slight problem with the nut and the pickup system on his workhorse Gibson J40.