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: Custom Services :
Customising your Guitar Options
Is there an aspect of your guitar that you would like to change? If there is check out the following options:
Cosmetic Up grades
- Custom Pickguards
- Plating of the hardware
- Change the colour of your guitar
- New or different Inlays of your Fretboard
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Tone Enhancements
- Pickup changes
- Adding a piezo saddles for an acoustic guitar sound
- Custom wiring
- Bridge Change
- Nut Material Change
- Saddle Change
- Buzz Feiten tuning retrofit
- String guage/material
- String clearance adjustments
- Changing tuners
- Upgrade/change tremolo
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Ergonomic Improvements
- Neck Reshaping
- Fretboard radius changes
- Fretwire size change
- Reshaping the body
- Change String Spacing at nut and bridge
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Matheas Custom Gallery
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Les Paul DC
The client found Gibson's sharp contour was cutting into his forearm
Solution re- contouring to a rounder profile allows a personalised feel.
Cosmetically retouching with Gibson style lacquer and stain the customising looks factory customised to the customers spec. |
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Original Fender Humbuckers
These pickups produce a thick dark sound
My client wanted the Strat sound of Stevie Ray Vaughn
I made him a pickguard with 3 Fender Texas special pickups proportionally spaced to a Stats speciation with one volume two tone controls and a 5 way slider switch.
Now we have two authentic Fender tones Tele deluxe Humbuckers and Fender Texas Special sizzling blues tones. |
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Matheas guitars offers a wide variety of finishing and refinishing options.
- Cut & Polish - Removes surface grime cleans and polishes existing finish
- Touch-ups - We offer touch ups to cover exposed wood due to chip damage, on commonly worn areas such as on the neck or soundboard.
- Scuff and Recoat - Rub existing finish and recoat to revive existing finish.
- Refinish complete instrument using authentic techniques and materials.
- French Polishing with Shellac, early Martins and Spanish hand made guitars
- Nitrocellulose Lacquer, CF Martin, Maton, Gibson, Early Fenders, Guild
- Modern cured finish Polyester Lacquer finish for a durable finish with that glossy PRS, Musicman appearance.
- Staining wood with high attention to detail can accentuate and highlight the natural features of wood grain. This is a popular request for guitarist sporting figured maple tops on their electric guitars.
Matheas Guitars recognises that different finishes on guitar necks have differing textures. We realise that not all players feel comfortable with all finishes, as some players find some finishes too slippery or too sticky. If you are unhappy with the feel of the finish on your guitar neck we offer the following:
- Vintage Feel Nitrocellulose Gloss (Pre 68 Fenders, Gibsons, Martin)
- Matt or Satin Nitrocellulose (Maton, Martin)
- Shellac (Hand made Spanish guitars, pre 30's martins)
- Oil (Musicman, Nuno N4)
- Polyurethane (PRS, Ibanez artist, 70's fenders)
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Three Different Refinishing Examlpes
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Modern polyester finish in high gloss metallic blue |
Gold Translucent Stain
Finished in gloss vintage lacquer,
nitrocellulose
Hand buffed and polished |
French polished sound board with
blonde shellac |
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Has one of your instruments suffered some severe damage? If so, all is not lost. At Matheas Guitars we are dedicated to bringing instruments back to life. At Matheas Guitars we have a fully equipped workshop. If your instrument has any following problems don't hesitate to get in touch.
- Warped or twisted Neck
- Broken Headstock
- Broken or inactive truss rod
- Faulty machine heads
- Chipped nut no longer able to hold the string
- Split acoustic bridge
- Loose or cracked struts or braces
- Cracks or splits on acoustic soundbox
- Fractures/punctures on soundbox
- Worn bridge plate
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- Loose or detached bridge
- Misaligned neck angle
- Loose fingerboards
- Loose necks
- Incorrectly placed frets, nut or bridge
- Improve seating and angle of saddle
- Graft missing worn wood of guitar neck
- Correct worn irregular fingerboard on fretless bass.
- Repair wear of tremolo contacts to improve tuning.
- Reset neck angle to correct string height and break angle over the saddle
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Gibson truss rod restoration
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Trust Rod is not active
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Remove fret board |
Fabricate correct arc for
trust rod to be active |
Install maple fillet with
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| Reinstall fret board |
Refret guitar with Gibson fret wire |
Setup guitar |
Inspect Clean and polish |
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