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This is a lovely instrument. the guitar has been converted to left hand operation previously by another repairer. The job’s been carried out well with all the controls being fitted in the correct place…but the job was not finished, leaving unsightly unfilled holes in the top of the guitar.

This Taylor 314 had suffered from a fall resulting in quite a nasty looking, but a clean break, to the heel of the neck. I quickly saw a way to repair and reinforce the damage.

We see a lot of poor refrets….but we can usually repair the poor workmanship. This was a bit different. Not many repairers have the skill to refret a bound fingerboard guitar without damaging the binding…so why bother?…

Read how we fit a Kahler Bass trem on this Klingon ESP bass…..

Disaster!.. and what’s worse, Vigier don’t make this pickup anymore!

…maybe it’s because they don’t have Jetpacks to play around with…well until they arrive chaps…..

Well…they said it couldn’t be done. The body is tapered in 2 planes…It’s tapered across it’s width and length. This made for a challenging installation but we like a challenge here at Guitar Repair Shop in fact we thrive on them and laugh in the face….OH STOP IT!!!!

Our customer here…Mr. Lucky Man…to own such a rare and wonderful instrument…had broken the Steinberger trem unit.