The "Skim and Set-up " is a repair that sits in between a set-up and a full fret dress, and is a very popular way to get a much better result from a set-up. We show you why it works so well here.

The StewMac neck jig designed by Dan Erlewine gets results on a par with the Plek profile in the hands of an expert tech. We walk you through a fret dress here.

A refret when done carefully can easily take 5-6 hours of workbench time. There are a lot of careful stages that you may not know about. Here we show you some of them

When a famous magazine reviews editor asked if we would refret his old Les paul and let him discuss the work in the magazine's "Mod Squad" articles we jumped at the opportunity to help out. Here is how it went down.

Having a guitar with sentimental attachment is not unusual, but deciding to spend money on it to make it rival your other axes is one we are seeing more and more. Follow the story of Dan's strat here.

Feline mainman Jonathan loves a nice guitar strap, and wanted a special exclusive strap for Feline. He helped design something classy to suit the bigger player with comfort and adjustability

There is something special when you actively choose to buy your first tools to work on guitars, long before you knew it would become your life's work. Here is how that went down.

Building guitars for over 3 decades was a bit special and we decided to create something a bit different to mark the occasion. We went for a mix of great tone and balanced weight

Over the years we have become well known for our Lion model, both in the archtop and flat top versions.
There is something special about the flat top guitars but I decided that they needed some extra comfort too.