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.

SOLD

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

We see a lot of 70’s Stratocasters, some good, some not to. This one is definitely a keeper. Resonant, medium weight American Ash body, medium shouldered “u” shaped neck with a nicely aged tobacco burst. 100% original in original case, heye it still has the little packet with the allen keys in it.

$2950

The Firebird V came about as a re-working of an existing Explorer design by car designer Ray Deitrich and first appeared in 1963. The edges were rounded, and the headstock was fitted with “banjo” style machine heads,  however, more important was the construction; the Firebird is the only Gibson made with a laminated “neck thru” body. The tone is woody and dark which is offset by the bright PAF Mini Humbuckers. This little beauty was made in 1998 and is a bargain at 2250.00 with original case.

“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!

This here is a 1979 Gibson Les Paul. All original parts and case. This thing has a killer sound, big ballsy bottem end with a big fat crunchy midrange. It’s solid mahogany body makes this guitar not for the weak shouldered. Come on in to have a play. all yours for $4995. inc case

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?

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.

Now this little baby was a real challenge. You would be amazed at just how much electronics can be jammed into such a small guitar! Those crazy Swedes must have had too much time on their hands. That said….isn’t she just soooo cute. No bigger in size than a Mustang (reg.needed) and a neck so slender that it would put an Ibanez RG reg. needed) to shame. This guitar was built in 1961 by the Hagstrom Company. We have rebuilt her lovingly right down to the Tortoishell scratchplate which was fashioned by young James who is following in the footprints of his forefathers (that’s me and Luke by the way). Oh! And by the way, when we re fretted the neck it was still Gun barrel straight after all these years. I cant even tell you what Scandinavian timbers were used on these guitars, however I would loooove to get my hands on some.  STOP PRESS! Sorry all, Skritch of The Mary Trembles has snatched it……However we will be getting more so let us know if you wish to be in the loop.  Average price for these cuties is 1500.00 inc Case.

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.
This Tele is awesome and we don’t expect it to stick around for long.
Oh and the real Tele has knobs on it too, unlike these photo’s
$1950