‘Unique Products’ Category

  1. Unique Products

    April 5, 2022

    Amps

    We have Amassed an Ample Array of Amps

    Accessories

    Uncle John’s Famous String Goo

    Uncle John’s Famous Tortoise Shell

    Uncle John’s Famous Leads

    Parts

    Hand Made Brass Bridgepieces

    Charlie Christian Style Pickups

    L.R Baggs Acoustic soundhole Pickup

    Modifications and Improvements

    The Tone Bloc

    Compensated Nuts

    Brazlian Bloodwood


  2. Uncle Johns Famous String Goo

    June 29, 2010

    A  Top  Quality String Preserver

    • Unlike most string lubricants ours does not contain silicon or any other harmful lubricants, our product is all natural baby.
    • It neutralizes the pH value of sweat (the number one cause of string corrosion) so that you can get up to four times the life out of your strings.
    • One bottle should last you close to three years! (a few drops on a flanel cloth after every time you play is the recommended usage).
    • and it smells great!
    • Keeps strings fresh for up to 4 times their normal life. Harmless  ingredients  lubricate, clean,  fortify and protect your strings.
    • Each batch is bottled with high attention to detail and our product is quality reassured. Tried and tested by all of us here at the Guitar Repairers. So come in and pick yourself up one today!


  3. “Charlie Christian” Style Acoustic Pickups

    March 7, 2010

    advertWe Love sound hole pick ups! I personally believe the LR Baggs M1 to be one of the most brilliant pieces of acoustic amplification technology to come out in the last 20 years. Our vintage parlor guitars however are a little different in their requirements. For one, many have sound holes that are too small to accommodate the commercially made products. Secondly, even when they can be fitted they tend to take away the antique vibe and look of the guitar. So we thought it best to come up with our own. This pick up has six calibrated pole pieces for even response, can be used with or with out an acoustic preamp and is compatible with our custom made piezo pick ups. RRP 175.00


  4. Brazilian Bloodwood Nuts and Saddles

    February 10, 2010

    Disclaimer. The views expressed below are my views (Uncle Johnson). We will quite happily make you a nut and/or saddle in any material you like with the exception of compressed bat guana,

    For the last few years I have been trying to find alternative materials for making nuts and saddles. The traditional materials such as bone and brass have been proven over time and the more widely used modern materials such as Corian, Micata and Tusq are also very good……So why do I want to re invent the wheel? Because..

    1. Bone makes the work shop smell like an industrial dentist’s surgery when shaped and sanded. I also find it very difficult to get a regular supply of consistently hard, non porous bone. The tone can sometimes be a little too bright and even bit harsh depending on the application, and lastly it can be quiet “sticky” when used to make a nut, thereby causing strings to “click” or “creak”. This can affect the tuneability and tuning stability of the instrument. (more…)


  5. Compensated Nuts

    February 10, 2010

    Ever driven yourself insane trying to get the open chords of your guitar to all play in tune and then once you’ve found an acceptable compromise you find the bar chord suck ass?

    Well this can help. When you look at your guitar, do you notice that the bridge saddle/s are further away from the neck on the bass side and closer to the neck on the treble side?

    This is called compensation and it is designed to compensate for the thickness of the strings so that they are as close to being a perfect octave at the 12th fret. The 1000,000.00 question is how do you get them to be in perfect pitch over the rest of the finger board? (more…)


  6. Handmade Brass Saddle Bridgepieces

    February 5, 2010

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    Up until recently we, like most guitar repair shops replaced bass saddles and telecaster bridge saddles with the best bridge saddles we could find.

    However I’ve never been that happy with the type of brass used, nor the tone it produced. I researched the historical “why’s” and “where fores” of this and found the most interesting thing. The original brass used by the likes of Fender back in the 50’s was actually a softer compound than that which is available today. (more…)