Bill Roberts Musical Instrument and Electronic Repair

Headstock repair on an extremely checked lacquered finished 1969 Gibson BlueRidge acoustic.
The irregular break offered one challenge and the heavily checked finish another. The only good thing was most of the break was lateral along the grain so splines were unnecessary.

Been working on restoring this 1946 Gibson Southern Jumbo.
Neck reset
Refret
New bridge
Hydration & crack repair

Neck came off with a struggle but ultimately succumbed pretty cleanly.
Notably no registration numbers on the dovetail like usually found on Martins. Hit the pocket almost dead on with the heat sticks.
Also interesting is the anchor point of the truss rod at the end of the dovetail.

66/67 Yamaha SB-2 Bass. One pickup dead needed rewinding. Was a bit of a chore as I don’t think Yamaha thought about repairability but ultimately came out very close to the other one at 10.4k. Patched one PU cover with tinted friendly plastic. Refreshed shielding paint. Someone had previously done some creative rewiring of controls. Luckily found an old service manual with schematics online. Volume, Tone, Balancer(also labeled tone) and returned to original operation. Some fret dressing,setup and cleaning corroded hardware.
Now looks and plays like it should.
Pretty cool Bass from nearly 60 years ago.

This 1977 Martin D-18 had a neck reset a number of years ago, for what ever reason it needed to be done again. Plays and sounds great.
Neck reset, fret dressing and new bone compensated saddle.
Also customer wanted a pickup installed so went with LR Baggs Anthem system.