Restoration
Restoration services are available at a flat hourly rate.
Services include: ground-up restorations, sinking tops, rebracing, fretboard flattening, refret, tone enhancing, spirit varnish, lacquer, custom setups.
The 1883 Calace pictured above, 8 years after its restoration, appears at a concert in New York.
June 2023
SS Stewart tenor guitar
Neck reset, new fretboard cut, new bridge made, French polish, and setup.
September 2019
1902 Luigi Embergher model 5
“I am very pleased with how it turned out, and I think you did an exceptionally fine job. It really was a work of love for old mandolins.” Matthew Woods, author of “Vintage Fretted Instruments: A Compendium and Guide to Collecting”, October 2019