Accu-Tech Guitar Repair LLC

...Greetings Guitar Lovers.....Maintaining a return client base is important. Not just for business, but because they call in with the most interesting guitars for repair...

Recently one of my clients called in and wanted to know if I had any experience with Mosrite guitars. My response was "oh, you mean Ed Roman Guitars in Las Vegas, NV". Little did I know what he was about to say next..."I have a Mosrite Mark XII that needs some help". I couldn't wait to see the first Mosrite Mark XII grace my work bench...
..Please enjoy this 1965/66 Mosrite Mark XII guitar...

...Good Saturday morning bass guitar fans everywhere. Lets talk vintage, and when I say vintage, I mean close to the beginning for one guitar manufacturer who survived through the ages...Fender.
..In todays post we will look at a 1952 Fender Precision bass. I was a only 3 years old when this guitar was built. This was an interesting instrument to put back into its original condition and involved a lot of research. Finding original parts was not easy, and when you did find an original part, it was sky high expensive. for example, I wanted to replace the volume potentiometer with an original part. The only one I could find came in at a whopping $575.00. Since the guitar had been modified (like most of these earliest models), it was hard to justify many of the original part prices. During my research, an original 1952 Precision bass, intact, with all original parts, with case and not modified, came in at a cool $32,000.00. But even the ones that had been modified through the years still brought a respectable $15,000.00 to $20,000.00 price tag.
..It was a pleasure to put it back into the hands of the owner. This guitar was built the second year of Fenders venture into the electric bass guitar.
..Please enjoy the stroll down memory lane with this second year model of the Fender Precision Bass...

...It has been a while since I have posted any new repair photos, so I searched through some past repairs and found a few gems you might like...
..For this post, I found a couple of photos of a pre-war Rickenbacker lap steel guitar model that came into the shop, similar to one that was featured in Neil Young's Harvest Moon video (YouTube). This is a B-model lap steel, estimated manufacture in 1939. With a distinctive sound and chrome plated metal accents, the metal parts were changed to plastic around the time of WWII...
..Take a listen to the Harvest Moon video for a listen to this wonderful instrument...