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Aerosmith
Albert Lee
Allman Brothers
B.B. King
Bob Dylan
Bonnie Raitt
Chet Atkins
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Elvis Costello
George Jones
Grateful Dead
Joni Mitchell
Keith Richards
Neil Young
Paul McCartney
Robben Ford
Stray Cats
Willie Nelson
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Factory Authorized Service
Center for Martin, Gibson, Fender, Taylor,
Epiphone, Gretsch, Guild,
Ovation, Alembic, and more...
I’ve been a Certified C. F. Martin Warranty Repairman for over 20 years. I worked at the Gibson Custom Shop in Nashville and I’m an authorized Gibson warranty station as well as Fender, Taylor, Guild, Gretsch, Alembic, Ovation, Takamine and many others.
While I do a good deal of work fixing issues with new, under-warranty instruments, repairing and restoring rare and valuable guitars is one of the most common requests that I receive. After more than 35 years I've seen just about every kind of damaged guitar you can imagine. I've had to correct, repair, rebuild, and restore major damage to many fine vintage and valuable instruments.
With collectible vintage guitars, the actual goal is not to make the guitar look like new as that would destroy its value. The luthier's job is to remove all of the negatives and work with what is left. A great repair or a great restoration will preserve the character of the instrument so that the effect of time will remain inthe background.
I recently did a complete restoration on a 1902 Martin 00-45 for actor Richard Gere that was one of only three prototypes ever produced. The handmade quality of the instrument was so special and the restoration was so complete, that after the restoration was complete Martin reintroduced the guitar.