Meek Guitar and Mandolin Repair
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Past Work
Takamine Jasmine S-35: This guitar had a real bad case of fret buzz. It required a slight adjustment in the neck. I also had to deepen the slots in the nut and lower the saddle. The frets were a different story... They were all different heights but only by a few thousanths each. That was not the cause of the fret buzz. It was the "origonal" setup.
Epiphone6832E:This guitar has had a very hard life... It had a broken neck block and a crushed top. The 'X' bracing was terribly loose and the bridge was coming off and the bridge plate was cracked in half. The top had to come off and the cracks cleated. I made a custome bridge plate and installed it. It took some fixing but it's ready to start life again.
Epiphone (undisclosed) This is one from the mid fifties. It had some VERY badly worn frets. The worn spots went mostly down to the fingerboard. The refret job could not look new or even that it ever HAD a fret job in the first place!! I had to match the frets that didn't need replacing and "age" the new frets to match the old frets.
1946 Martin D-18 This is a very valuable guitar that I had the pleasure of working on not to long ago. It had been dropped and landed on it's back edge creating two three inch cracks in the back and a separated side. It also had some minor fret buzz on a few frets. This guitar has never had a neck-reset and the action is still real good. Man, Martin makes some real fine guitars...
Strat CopyThis is my own guitar. This guitar had a broken truss rod and a twisted neck. I did not want a simple replacement neck. I wanted a one-of-a-kind neck carved just for this guitar. I choose oak, OAK??? Yup, oak for both the neck and the fingerboard. The dot inlays are mother of pearl and the custom nut is bleached bone. This is the first guitar I ever made. That was a long time ago and I still have it. I just can't sell something so dear to me ya' know??
