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"Life is too short to spend it with a crappy guitar."
Rick Nielsen, Cheap Trick

"Chinese Junk is a boat. It shouldn't be your guitar"
Jim Triggs, (former Topeka Guy and noted Lutherier)

Dan

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The fellow that performed this handiwork calls himself a luthier. You be the judge. Bring your guitar work to Steam and get it done right.

A 30 year old left handed Guild in a rare OM body size. The only problem was the owner is right handed. This guitar was too cool to butcher.

Dan installed this device that permits using the original bridge but still have the guitar play in tune by altering the string lengths. Pretty cool.

Here is a Gibson ES135 with the wood surrounding the truss rod nut rudely chopped away so a mechanics socket would fit the nut and they went clean through the back of the neck. Then they stripped the truss rod.

The nut was epoxied on so it would stay put! BAD IDEA!!

We are now installing the Earvana Compensated Nut. Here is my last Stratocaster getting retrofitted. If you are a stickler on tuning this is a wonderful addition to your favorite axe. Play in tune up and down the neck. Check out www.earvana.com for complete details and check out my Strat here at the store.

Here's a 70's Martin getting new teeth, er....., frets!

Kerry Livgren stopped in and told us he absolutely had to play this guitar at a concert due to business commitments with the manufacturer. Unfortunately the guitar buzzed like crazy when he pulled it out of the case. We gave the guitar a compete set up including leveling and crowning the frets. Kerry was shown playing this very guitar in Vintage Guitar magazine.

We had to install a replacement neck on a guitar that originally had a neck tilt. The replacement neck didn't come with the required plate for the tilt adjuster to push against. Dan came up with the idea of inlaying a 2008 quarter into the heel of the new neck which would solve the problem and date the work at the same time. Pretty clever solution!

Fret wear can be corrected by dressing, crowning, and polishing. Above is a well worn Strat that was rejuvenated by Dan Kaufman. Even many high dollar new guitars get a quickie fret job, and your guitar can be made to play much better with some careful hand grooming using the right tools.

This SG is getting a sauna in preparation for neck removal and resetting.

Check out the new Strat project image-1 image #2 image #3

Doing the Bigsby

The guys that give lessons

Chip Janda...Guitar	John Kelly...Guitar	Ben Engstrom...Bass
			Chip and John Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm Ben is available Sat. only.

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