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Fancy something different? Listen up all you Nils Cline fans….Here we’re fitting the amazing looking Charlie Christian style pickup into a Jaguar.

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.

Our very good customer Stevie Gilles loved his Larrivee guitar but changing broken strings during the gig was, to use his phrase, ” rippin’ his knittin’ “…he gave me the job to solve his problem despite me helpfully telling him to improve his technique and stop breaking strings!

Eugene from The Vaselines dropped in a pair of identical Gibson Melody Makers for a refurb. Very RED…aren’t they?

In early 2013 we were asked to strip Mani’s 2 Epiphone “Jack Cassidy” basses so that they could be covered in an artwork by Glasgow artist and 2005 Turner prize nominee, Jim Lambie.

Well respected session guitarist Mr Duncan Findlay had purchased the Gibson custom shop Larry Carlton signature guitar (known as Mr 335) unseen. Unfortunately he just couldn’t get on with the neck!

This job was a bit of a strange one. The client was having isssues with the fretting on his Les Paul at the top of the neck and was convinced that filing the frets and the fingerboard between the frets would help fix the problem.

Here we fit a left hand Evertune system into a Fender Telecaster …left handed of course. The customer also wanted comfort routing to the body…