Turning New Tuners Into Vintage Tuners: Often you will run into the problem of having to replace the tuning machines for a valuable vintage instrument. Sometimes you can get away with just replacement of of few of the degraded knobs, but often the tuners themselves are is such sad shape they too are in need [...]

Repair Your Own Guitar Source: Don’t Start With a Complicated Repair Repair Your Own Guitar – Is It For You? This can be a rather hard question for me to answer, because it depends on several things. Such as: Woodworking Experience:Do you have any experience working with woodworking projects? You don’t have to be a [...]

Learn how to complete this simple guitar repair task. If the bridge has just hairline cracking between the bridge pins, you can easily stop the cracking. If you don’t repair the cracks, you will be looking at more serious problems down the line. Also while you have your guitar on the bench, correct additional problems with the bridge.

If you have an acoustic guitar or classical guitar that is made from plywood, sometimes a sharp blow to the instrument will cause the plywood plys to delaminate. This can lead to buzzing or complete failure of the affected top or back plates of the guitar. Learn how to simply fix this condition with a few simple tools.

Rattles and buzzes while playing your guitar can drive you almost crazy. They can be very hard to detect as the rattle or buzz is often telegraphing from a remote location. This article will give you all the places to check and then give you solution as to how to remedy the obtrusive sound with a permanent fix.

Pickguard Removal Source: Guitar Plate Repairs Pickguard Removal: There can be multiple reasons for replacing a pickguard on an acoustic guitar. The most prevalent reason is replacing a pickguard on a vintage instrument where the pickguard has shrunk or curled up from old age. This replacement can also be accompanied by crack repair requirements around [...]

Guitar Side Crack Repair | Minor side cracks can be quite easy to repair, this article gives you complete step by step instructions to complete the repair, complete with free PDF plans for tools you can make to aid you in the ease of making this repair.

Guitar Body Cracks. It is often as important to know what caused a guitar body crack as to how to go about fixing one. This article will discuss the different types of body cracks that you will encounter for guitar repair.

Wood Binding Removal Source: Guitar Plate Repairs Tools & Materials Required: X-Acto Knife Set Dremel Rotary Tool Stewmac Binding Channel Attachment Chisel Scraper Blade Japanese Pull Saw or Razor Saw Reasons For Wood Binding Removal: There can be a number of reasons where the wood binding needs to be removed on a guitar. Some of [...]

Plastic Binding can be a bit of a challenge to remove without damage to the guitar. Follow these easy to use instruction to pull of a perfect binding removal job with minimal touch-up required.