Lowdown Guitars

Lowdown Guitars Travaux de lutherie de qualité. Tarif intéressant et service courtois. Quality guitar repairs at a Service courtois et efficace. Confiez-moi sa mise au point!!

Service de lutherie par technicien-luthier comptant vingt ans d’expérience. Je prendrai le temps de comprendre vos besoins afin de vous aider à tirer le maximum de votre instrument. Tarif concurrentiel et intéressant. Vous venez d'acheter une guitare ou une basse et vous êtes insatisfait de son jeu ou du son? C'est parce qu'elle n'est pas bien réglée, alors un calibrage complet s’impose. Ce temps

chaud et humide fait-il ravage de votre guitare ou basse? Manche trop courbé et difficile à jouer tout d'un coup? VOUS AVEZ REÇU UNE GUITARE OU UNE BASSE EN CADEAU? CONFIEZ-MOI SA MISE AU POINT CAR LES RÉGLAGES D'ORIGINE SONT PRESQUE TOUJOURS INADÉQUATS. Services offerts:
· Mise au point de guitares acoustiques, électriques et basses (polissage et nettoyage complet, pose de cordes neuves, ajustement de manche et de la touche, intonisation, ajustement des micros, nettoyage de l’électronique)
SPÉCIALISATION EN RÉGLAGE DES BASSES ÉLECTRIQUES
· Mise au point complet de tremolo Floyd Rose
· Pose de micros piezo dans guitares acoustiques
· Égalisation et pose de frettes
· Fabrication sur mesure de sillet de tête et de pont
· Réparation de bois fissurés et ponts décollés, etc.
· Travaux électroniques, pose ou ajout de nouveaux micros, blindage (shielding) en cuivre, etc.
· Modifications (pose de nouvelles mécaniques, installation de pont, etc.) Guitar repair service by luthier technician with twenty years experience. Courteous and efficient service. Affordable and competitive rates. I take the time to understand your needs to help you get the maximum out of your instrument. Have you recently purchased a guitar or bass and are disappointed by its sound and playability? It probably isn't adjusted properly, so its time for a tune up!! Is the hot, humid weather playing tricks with your instrument? Has your instrument suddenly become hard to play because the neck is bowed? Let me take care of your tune up!! HAVE YOU RECEIVED A GUITAR OR A BASS AS A GIFT? HAVE ME GIVE IT A FULL TUNE-UP BECAUSE THE WAY IT IS ADJUSTED OUT OF THE BOX IS USUALLY NOT OPTIMIZED. I offer the following services:
- tune-ups of electric and acoustic guitars and electric basses (full cleaning and polishing, restringing, neck and action adjustments, intonation, pickup adjustment, electronic cleaning, etc.)
- SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO ELECTRIC BASSES OF ALL TYPES
- cleaning and full calibration of Floyd Rose tremolos
- installation of piezo pickups in acoustic instruments
- fret levelling and refrets
- fabrication of string nuts and acoustic bridge saddles
- regluing of all types (cracks, acoustic bridges, etc. )
- electronic work, rewiring, pickup installation, copper shielding, etc.
- modifications of all types (tuner and bridge upgrades, etc.) I also speak English, so don't be shy. Kevin James L. Lowdown Guitars
506-543-7024

A small-bodied Gibson acoustic with a few issues. This instrument is in player condition and is not a museum piece.In ye...
09/26/2022

A small-bodied Gibson acoustic with a few issues. This instrument is in player condition and is not a museum piece.

In years past it's neck joint was reglued, probably at the same time a repair was made to a crack in its top parallel to the bass side of the fretboard tongue.

This repair seems to have left the guitar with a significant rising hump in the fretboard tongue from the 14th fret on up.

The bridge saddle is made of rosewood, and is height adjustable by way of two machine screws threadwd through brass inserts in the top. However, even when lowered as much as it will go, the action is still unplayably high.

I'll be tackling these problems in two ways.

At the bridge end, I'll be removing material from the underside of the bridge saddle, as well as removing material from the top of the bridge with a coarse rasp to thin it out and expose more of the saddle. I'll also be cutting ramping channels between the leading edges of the bridge pin holes and the saddle to increase the break angle. The lower action will cause the strings to fret-out on the hump, so the hump needs to go.

On the fretboard tongue, I'll be removing the frets from the 14th on up, then removing wood from the fretboard to turn the upward hump into a negative fall-away. Once done, I'll re-install the original frets.

Due to removing wood from the top of the bridge I'll need to re-chamfer the bridge pin holes.

Incidentally, as with a lot of inexpensive models made in the 50s and 60s, the bridge is bolted through the top as well as glued down. I'll need to re-chamfer the holes that hold the 1/4" pearloid dot that hide the screw heads.

Refurbishing a Gibson Les Paul custom of unknown vintage.The rear of the neck joint has been filled with Bondo and resha...
07/28/2022

Refurbishing a Gibson Les Paul custom of unknown vintage.

The rear of the neck joint has been filled with Bondo and reshaped to look like a neck-through body contour.

At some time in the past it was roughly refretted and the ebony board sports multiple chips that must be filled in. Once done I'll correctly refret it.

The whole guitar has been refinished with blinding white spray paint. The paint will stay as-is, but I'll spend time scraping the overspray from the neck and headstock binding.

Leveled frets before and after re-crowning and polishing.One at a time. By hand. Always.Neck: DanoCaster heavy relic
07/11/2022

Leveled frets before and after re-crowning and polishing.

One at a time. By hand. Always.

Neck: DanoCaster heavy relic

Well that's a wrap on the import Les Paul copy.- fret re-setting, leveling and recrowning- nut and saddle adjustments- s...
07/11/2022

Well that's a wrap on the import Les Paul copy.

- fret re-setting, leveling and recrowning
- nut and saddle adjustments
- straighten out and re-set the tuners crookedly installed
- re-string with Ernie Ball 11-48 Power Slinky
- tune-up and full adjustment

NB: The big white control button is a factory installed kill switch.

Working on an Asian made Les Paul copy.The instrument was brought to me with a lot of string buzz, due in part to improp...
07/08/2022

Working on an Asian made Les Paul copy.

The instrument was brought to me with a lot of string buzz, due in part to improper neck adjustment, but mainly due to poorly installed frets.

Budget instruments are built to a price point, with most attention given to the appearance and not the fit and finish. The main cost-cutting measure is to reduce or eliminate the detailed hand work required to produce well installed and finished frets.

Many of the frets were popping out of their slots, so I re-seated them. Before leveling the high spots I locked all of them in place by wicking water-thin superglue under them. The superglue prevents them from creeping upwards out of their slots, and provides the added benefit of filling up the small air spaces between the fret tang and the walls of the fret slot. This goes a long way to improving the tone of budget imported instruments.

Now that the frets are leveled, I'm re-crowning and polishing them.

07/08/2022

Working on an Asian made Les Paul copy.

The instrument was brought to me with a lot of string buzz, due in part to improper neck adjustment, but mainly due to poorly installed frets.

Budget instruments are built to a price point, with most attention given to the appearance and not the fit and finish. The main cost-cutting measure is to reduce or eliminate the detailed hand work required to produce well installed and finished frets.

Many of the frets were popping out of their slots, so I re-seated them. Before leveling the high spots I locked all of them in place by wicking water-thin superglue under them. The superglue prevents them from creeping upwards out of their slots, and provides the added benefit of filling up the small air spaces between the fret tang and the walls of the fret slot. This goes a long way to improving the tone of budget imported instruments.

A Norman B20 12 string that spent too much time in a dry environment, with strings that were way too heavily guaged. Pro...
07/03/2022

A Norman B20 12 string that spent too much time in a dry environment, with strings that were way too heavily guaged.

Pro tip: 12-string guitars don't need string sets heavier than .010-.047, which most string manufacturers classify as light or extra light. Remember that with twelve strings the vibrating mass and tension is virtually double that of a standard 6-string, so no need to over-do things. Using strings that are too heavy just puts unneeded stress on the neck, neck joint, bridge, top and bracing, and ultimately leads to premature degradation of the instrument's structure.

Exception: When tuning down to D standard (whole step down) or lower, you can increase the string guage to prevent flop and buzzing.

Now here's a first for this repairman.This is a very roughly refinished Gibson Les Paul, with many non-original parts an...
06/10/2022

Now here's a first for this repairman.

This is a very roughly refinished Gibson Les Paul, with many non-original parts and mods to the body. More about that later!

I've been tasked with, among other things, replacing the import metric tailpiece and tune-o-matic bridge with Gibson original parts.

Once I pulled the body bushings, I discovered the holes contained remnants of the original 1/2" diameter bushings. The person who replaced them with metric neglected, or failed to remove the originals, so they simply center-bored them to accept the metric ones. This left an inner ring of metal inside the holes, making them too small for the new 1/2" ones.

Using a 1/2" drill bit chucked into my hand droll, I carefully reamed the remaining metal to collapse it enough to extract each one with pliers.

I'll line the inside of the holes with strips of mahogany veneer to take up the little bit of slack to ensure a tight fit when I install the new ones.

Progressing on the Martin D-35 partial refret.The original frets above the 8th were leveled at some time in the past, bu...
06/08/2022

Progressing on the Martin D-35 partial refret.

The original frets above the 8th were leveled at some time in the past, but were left flat and never recrowned. I'm crowning all of them to make them match the new frets.

After a bridge removal and reglue, rehydration and reconditioning of the bridge and fretboard wood, and a fret en bevel,...
06/07/2022

After a bridge removal and reglue, rehydration and reconditioning of the bridge and fretboard wood, and a fret en bevel, the Fender ABG is ready to go back into service.

The bridge and fretboard were so dry they had lost their natural color and turned grey.

Progress on the Martin D-35 refret. Spot leveling the few minor high spots prior to trimming the ends.
06/05/2022

Progress on the Martin D-35 refret. Spot leveling the few minor high spots prior to trimming the ends.

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