do you like Rusty Spoons? Huubert Cumberdale? check out our Salad Fingers inspired Roadkill T-Style. Complete with a B5 bigsby tailpiece, maple neck and a nice heavy alder body this young chap will make your belly scratch its basket.
This green machine has a great crunchy midrange and bitey top end.
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A beautiful bass modelled on the 70’s P-Basses’ made by Guitar Repairers lurker Will Beckwith. A pur nitrocellulose walnut finish over a beautifully figured ash body. A lovely maple neck with a light flame through it and all high quality chrome hardware, it supports Wilkinson high output ceramic pickups voiced for a vintage tone.
It has a bright chiming top end with a sweet midrange and should appeal to all P-Bass lovers out there
Another addition to our Roadkill series, proffesionally distressed by master-basser William Beckwith. This bass was made in the image of a 62′ style P-Bass and brings all the character and tone of the real deal.
A nice barky midrange with a tight top end thanks to a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard gives this a true worn in vintage sound.
here it is, our latest prize possession. Forget roadworn, forget relic, Roadkill is where its at. Proffessionally distressed by us here at the guitar repairers this guitar is a killer!
A vintage style neck that nobody has been able to believe, this thing plays like a dream. Sporting standard strat pickups we don’t know what it is but this thing sounds sensational. It has that hard bluesy crunch but also a bitey top end making it one of the most versatile strats we’ve ever put together.
This is a custom T-Style guitar we just finished for a customer. He wanted that awesome tele crunch but with much more midrange so we said “sure! leave it with us”. An all maple neck, nice ash body, b5 Bigsby, mini humbucker in the neck and a chrome plated P-90 in the bridge and of course a lovely vintage style nitro cellulose Butterscotch finish is what we came up with. Not bad eh?
Sounding as nice as it looks, as promised it has a nice bitey top end with a good thick midrange crunch.
Another proud creation of us fella’s here at the Guitar Repairers
pictured as well is the tele a la natural. We thought it looked so good natural that we had to post it as well
“William, William it was really nothing” these lyrics are my catch cry greeting whenever I see Mr. William Beckwith. For seven years now Will has worked with us as a part time member of our stag. The unseen force that creates some of the finest work we produce. For seven years he has also put up with me singing that Smith’s song to him as well. I doubt whether he’ll ever listen to that song again in his life Time. What can I tell you about Will?… Well, for one. He has an ear which is so tuned in to bass tones it has become an obsession with him. When Will and I listen to music together, it becomes quickly apparent that we are not “really” listening to the music so much as the bass lines. Above you will see some of the basses selected, built, restored and modified by Will. So here is a quick lowdown on Each.
“Relic”, “Road worn, Aged? What does it all mean?
I think it actually started when Hot Rodders in the America began to make their “Rods” look like they’d been sitting in a shed for 50 years. This resulted in a new kind of hot rod. I give you the “Rust Rod”. Why do these fanatics want to make their cars look like this? I don’t know, however I personally love them to bits.
Right then, I suppose you can think of the trend towards replica “aged” or “worn” classic guitars as being a bit like the above. To achieve this look takes a lot of time, patience and dear I say skill. The result sometimes turns into something more than just a replication. I would describe the end product as a piece of art. Each custom instrument is totally unique and bears the distinctive “Guitar Repairers” touch. The choice of materials, the shaping of the neck, the fret size, the tone and most importantly, the balance. What is that? I hear you say. Balance is how all the components come together to make the whole. For example, we might swap the necks three times before we find the “right” one for a particular guitar. It isn’t a formula or an exact science, it’s more about trial and error and what “feels” right. Our ambition is to produce a guitar that wraps itself around you like a glove and won’t release you.
One thing folks always say about a vintage replicas and that is “Wow! They really look beat” and indeed they do. When I was a younger chap and playing “Rawk!”5 nights a week in sweaty Queensland pubs, our guitars really took a beating.
The sweat, the heat, the booze, the occasional mishap…or not. Really took it’s toll. Many folks who’ve visited us have enquired about my ’92 Strat’. Sixteen years of gigging has taken it’s toll (in a good way). So if you can imagine what 40 years of gigging might do, then you’ll understand that my interpretation of “aged” is reaaallly aged!
ok… what do you get when you cross a medium weight swamp ash body with a ‘64 Jazzmaster, and a Mustang tremolo? well, maybe you get this!
with a ‘59 resissue humbucker in the bridge and a P90 in the neck couple up to a tuno-matic bridge. This thing is a hard rocking monster of a guitar with a sleek fast neck and street cred to die for
$1595
We did this one up a fair qhile ago and was sad to see it snatched up almost immediately, but we had it in the shop the other day and couldnt resist the oppurtunity for a photo shoot. So here it is, fully relic’d body and neck, brass saddlepieces, GFS Vintage alnico pickups, and a very nice Bigsby tremolo bridge system. This banana blaster really rocks! Enquire about getting your very own one today
This is our very own Handmade GTR Mandolin made by Kallquist Guitars. Back, sides and neck are rose mahogany cut from old VJ’s used once in a Presbytery in Kerry. soundboard and braces are bright spruce from an old German Piano.
“it sounds awesome!, loud, bold full, everything you need in a Mandolin” – Luke Kallquist, 2010
Stay tuned for more in the GTR Line by Kallquist guitars
This is a custom order. Pastel Blue, 2 piece ash body, High output vintage style pick ups, all brass hardware and hand milled brass saddles (check these out in the Unique and exciting products section.). Makes for quite the blues machine. We make these guitars to order starting at around 1500.00
This time, we really went for a very “Japanese†vibe. Whaddya think?
this is our custom shop Red and White GT Stripe J-Bass. This has an awesome vintage jazz bass sound and suits any playing style.
Ah yes! Yet another in our series of wallpaper “T†style guitars. I think this one is the most bodacious that we’ve produced yet. Just look at it! A lot of people have asked just where do we get our wallpaper from? I’ll let you in on a little secret. The Japanese have always been the masters of fine print product and the “wallpaper†is actually super high grade gift wrap. We have a local supplier who helps us in this area and we invite anyone who is interested to personally check out these prints for themselves. These guitars are made to order starting at 1800.00.
This baby is one of our famous wallpaper jobs and it doesn’t disappoint. A japanese cherry blossom wallpaper with a super schmicko vintage laquer paintjob, makes this Tele one of a kind. We also fitted it with custom made brass saddle pieces, vintage style machine heads and of course Alnico Fatbody Pickups.
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