Ivison Guitars - Build and Repair Thread

IvisonGuitars · November 2020

#003 straight off the bench....

IvisonGuitars · November 2020

Another week, another headstock repair....

This is an Edwards TV Yellow Junior that has 2 breaks in the past and another luthier had written it off as junk. But, seeing as I like a challenge I took it on:

You can probably see why....

At the edges of that large truss rod block/washer, there's less than 1mm of wood...

First job is to glue up the remnants, while carefully plotting where that massive 'washer' is. The tape is my 'stop' line:

There was a small void where some wood had gone missing between the initial break and sending to me so I mix up a 'filler' consisting of titebond and sawdust which dries solid and helps solidify everything. There's also no depth at all for me to be able to put a backstop on this so I carefully route for the biggest splines I can get away with.

Into the jig:

And after a rather nerve-wracking 20 minutes, I have the channels routed:

Next I find a nice, straight grained piece of Honduran mahogany for the splines and shape these by hand to fit:

They are glued up and left overnight, then the following day I par them down with a chisel and then shape with various scrapers and abrasives to give us this:

Then into the booth for filler, sealer, colour coats and clear and we've now arrived here:

I'll be sending it back to the customer this week

tone1 · November 2020

You are a Wizard Neil....

Philly_Q · November 2020

I love headstock repair threads, the different approaches really fascinate me! Nice job.

sawyer · November 2020

Very brave,very talented! Busted headstock pictures always make me feel sick:(

roberty · November 2020

Skills mate

WezV · November 2020

that washer is ridiculous!

IvisonGuitars · November 2020

WezV said:

that washer is ridiculous!

Yes, complete overkill and further weakens an already weak point, a design error for sure.

Rustylee · November 2020

IvisonGuitars said:

Here's a few more pics of the '58 DC:

I have a funny feeling that maybe the one I have!!!!

PeteC · November 2020

What a great repair - thanks for sharing how you do this Neil. Great skills indeed.

IvisonGuitars · November 2020

@Rustylee Hey Russel! Yes, that's yours, hope you're still enjoying it?

@PeteC Thanks Pete, It's a pleasure to bring these guitars back into service!

Next Hurricane off the bench and @DougCoda was right, it does work as a Goldtop too!

PeteC · November 2020

That doesn't work......IT REALLY works ! That gold finish reminds me of the east PRS Goldies ( Grissom's guitar ) So much nicer than the brassy light gold on many other big name brands .. A Goldtop with a slightly "greenish" cast is the best colour IMHO.
Beautiful.

hoops · November 2020

Absolutely amazing - love the Goldtop!

Gassage · November 2020

IvisonGuitars said:

@Rustylee Hey Russel! Yes, that's yours, hope you're still enjoying it?

@PeteC Thanks Pete, It's a pleasure to bring these guitars back into service!

Next Hurricane off the bench and @DougCoda was right, it does work as a Goldtop too!

I happen to play this guitar (at an undefined moment in COVID19 time) and it's incredible.

Everything you'd want an an LP style but feels more telecaster like and far less cumbersome in your hands- which is a good thing. The finish is exceptional and I love the detail hump on the bottom bout and of course, it's an unbound neck and any fule no bound necks suck.

I'm deffo gonna get one. With a bigbsy, obvs.

Wazmeister · November 2020

Incredible skill Neil, and I truly adore that Gold Top.

So pleased with how well you're doing mate. Inspirational.

By the way, you ought to video yourself playing; I recall you had some great chops !!

Gassage · November 2020

Wazmeister said:

Incredible skill Neil, and I truly adore that Gold Top.

So pleased with how well you're doing mate. Inspirational.

By the way, you ought to video yourself playing; I recall you had some great chops !!

More chops than Jackie Chan.

Lebarque · November 2020

Gassage said:

Wazmeister said:

Incredible skill Neil, and I truly adore that Gold Top.

So pleased with how well you're doing mate. Inspirational.

By the way, you ought to video yourself playing; I recall you had some great chops !!

More chops than Jackie Chan.

More chops than a butcher's window.

mikem8634 · November 2020

More chops than Lizzie Borden

IvisonGuitars · November 2020

Haha! I do love a good pun!

I tend to get red light fever when i'm in front of a camera so I leave it to the more confident guys but here's a video with me playing filmed by the chaps at @ATB_Guitars ;

mikem8634 · November 2020

Very nicely played indeed, and that is such an articulate guitar. I'll bet it sounds incredible clean as well, with a big Fendery reverb and tremolo.

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