VINTAGE & CUSTOM GUITAR SPECIALIST | ALL TYPES OF STRINGED INSTRUMENT REPAIRS
The answer’s easy. This old building — like your guitar — was made by real craftsmen.
I’m doing my best to uphold that tradition…
Old School Guitar Repair is located in an historic Hopewell, New Jersey schoolhouse, built in 1825. They just don’t build them like this anymore, and it’s cool being truly old school. The building has been completely renovated using period-correct materials — from the flooring, to the 18” stone walls.
What goes for the building goes for the work done here.
Repairs and new instruments are made using the same “old school” methods and materials used when your guitar was built, because those choices remain the best choices. This means hot hide glue when resetting a neck; itʼs hard to work with, but it draws the two pieces of wood together and can be easily taken apart with a little steam. It means celluloid binding — even though it costs more – because it has a look you don’t get with ABS plastic. It means nitrocellulose lacquer paints for their warmth, tone and visual appeal.
– Curt Wilson