Peter Damm Guitarmaker
Repairs, Maintanance and Newly Created Musical Instruments
In this section you will find:
Fender D6-3 bridge re-glued (Sept 2008)
Peerless Monarch frets leveled (July 2008)
Peerless Tonemaster new topnut & string alignment (July 2008)
Hyundai classical neck, top & brace repair (June 2008)
Yamaha RGX312 el. guitar restoring broken-off pieces due to a fall (June 2008)
Warmoth Strat changing pickups to Bare Knuckle PU's (Oct 2006 - Feb 2007)
Strat changing pickups to Texas Specials (2007)
Cuban Tres broken headstock repair (2006)
Egmond? Jazzmodel full restoration (2005)
Martin Acoustic steelstring refretjob and creating backbow in fretboard (2005)
Note: Only the interesting repairstories will be showed on this site
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Fender D6-3 bridge re-glued
Fender D6-3
This particular instrument had fallen down off the guitarstand
Taped off the fretboard with maskingtape
Mark the frets with black permanent marker
Level the frets with a file, and where the black is still visible you know there are a few low spots.
two frets recrowned
all frets done
Look how they shine.
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Peerless Tonemaster new topnut & string alignment
This particular instrument had fallen down off the guitarstand
The old nut will be removed because of some broken off pieces of bone.
Due to a fall.
New nut blank
Oversized nut-blank
New topnut sawn and shaped and glued to the neck
No this is not snow that has fallen onto the vice, but real bone-dust
Broken off toggle switch due to the fall. Replacement installed later.
The correct nutspacing done. The topnut is still much too high, but first
I needed to set and adjust the rest properly before I could do anything final to it.
All in between parts the same distance from each other.
Bigsby dead-center on the top-glue-line
now the alignment of the Bigsby tremolo and bridge.
Measuring from the neck to the place of the bridge
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Hyundai classical neck, top & brace repair
History 2008
Budget Guitar from the secondary school where my Wife teaches music.
So I had to come up with a cheap way of fixing these problems.
Neck broken off the body.
Neck glued back on
Top loose from sides
Glued back together
Loose brace on back
Glued brace
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Yamaha RGX312 el. guitar
History 2008
The following pictures were taken at my own workshop in Breukelen
Complaint:
Jackoutput broken due to a severe fall,
Body (wood) damaged at the Jack-area, many big separate pieces fell completely off
I had to conjure up a cheap solution, as this guitar is being used (and battered)
by children at the secondary school where my wife teaches music.
I'm a paragraph. Click once to begin enterinRemoved guitarparts and all electronics
Glued wooden body pieces together
Wooden insert plate for inside electronics-cavety (made to fit and glued)
Fitted a new Jackoutput
Mounted Guitarparts
Adjusted trusrod
Mounted the new Jackoutput
Cleaned the Guitar
Cleaned and oiled fretboard
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Warmoth Strat changing pickups to Bare Knuckle PU's
Purple Warmoth Strat
Complaint:
- please change pickups to Bare Knuckle Pickups
- please change bridgesaddles to Graph Tech zadelsg your own content. You can change my font, size, line height, color and more by highlighting part of me and selecting the options from the toolbar.
Picture of finished result.
Work:
removed neck
removed bridgesaddles
mounted Graph Tech saddles
worked out a complete wiring-system for pickups and push/pull
wired and soldered volume - and tone pots and Megaswitch
wired Seymour Duncan pickup phase-corrected
changed 5-way switch for Schaller “S”type Megaswitch
mounted and soldered jack-insert
soldered ground-wire for bridge
mounted pick-guard
attached new strings (D’Addario XL 09-042 EXL120)
adjusted action (stringheight)
filed down topnut to avoid “buzzing”
adjusted pickup height
adjusted intonation
cleaned total guitar
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Strat changing pickups to Texas Specials
History 2007
The following pictures were taken at my own workshop in Breukelen
Blue Strat
Complaint:
Please change pickups & pickguard to Fender Texas Special Pickups
Removed screws that holds pickguard, and jack-insert
Pickguard and jack-insert and ground-wire removed
Always make a note of the wiring diagram before cutting it up!
Close up for future reference
Mounted all pots, wiring, switch and new pickups to new pickguard
Wired and soldered volume - and tone pots and switch
Filled old screwholes in body from pickguard with wood (see white dots)
Drilled new holes as new pickguard had different spacings
Mounted pickguard
Mounted groundwire to bridge
Mounted and soldered jack-insert
Picture of finished result.
Filed down topnut to avoid “buzzing”
Adjusted pickup height
Adjusted intonation
Cleaned the guitar
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Cuban Tres broken headstock repair
Cuban "Tres"
Broken Headstock
Glued back together
Neck with a coat of finish
Tuning gear mounted and strings attached
The finished result!
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Egmond? Jazzmodel
Complaint:
- Electronics are not working
- Adjustment (playability not good)
Repair & maintenance:
Removed strings
Removed pickguard and pickup + glue residue from
removed pickup from top (added a thin coat of finish)
Removed tuning-gear (one button missing)
Filled old screw-holes from tuning-gear with wood
Installed new tuning gear
Filed down sides of frets (sticking out because of
shrinking of wood) Frets leveled and polished
Completely changed electronics and
attached ground-wire to tailpiece
Drilled holes for pots in top
Installed new volume and tone pots with buttons
Drilled hole for Jack-insert in “bottom” and
Installed new jack-insert
Adjusted pickup height, added extra length of pickup-wire
Mounted new straplocks
Mounted a new pickguard
Glued topnut
Adapted new adjustable wooden bridge to arch of top
Filed string-spacing in adjustable wooden bridge
Attached new strings
Adjusted action (stringheight)
Cleaned and oiled fretboard
Cleaned complete guitar
This guitar belongs to someone who did not touch it for more than 30 years. His Wife thought it was a good idea to restore it for his 60th birthday.
The finished and playable result.
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Martin Acoustic steelstring
History 2005
The following pictures were taken at my own workshop in Breukelen
Repair & maintenance:
Martin D-28 Steelstring Acoustic Guitar
Serial number : 311292 (on heelblock in body)
Additional # : B35968 (on heelcap)
Construction Date : 1971-1972
Price in 1972 : $ 495,-
- Frets worn-out
- Adjusting (playability) not right
Findings:
- Non-adjustable truss rod (square tube)
- Neck not strong enough,
strings are pulling too hard and make relief too big.
- Correct this by sanding the fretboard with a little back bow
- Number of frets were replaced before
- Bridgepins worn-out
- Pickguard not original
Badly worn-out frets
Tuning-machines removed
The spaces in between the frets are very dirty
All frets removed
All frets removed (correction in fretboard)
Topnut removed
Fretboard sanded and adapted
(a little back bow to compensate string pull)
Glue and sand-dust mixed together to fill in some damaged edges.
Refretted the fretboard
Frets leveled (dressed)
Frets polished
Fret ends filled and sanded smooth
Bridge (wood) lowered (stringheight adapted)
Bridge nut lowered and adapted (stringheight)
Bridge-pinholes adapted for new bridge-pins,
keep old ones for originality
Tuning-machines mounted
New strings attached
Topnut glued and adapted for new stringheight
