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Project: Hannah
For your viewing pleasure we have perhaps our most ambitious modification project from 2025. We started with a lawsuit-era Masada Telecaster clone and turned it into “Project: Hannah.” This player is a devotee of Prog Rock, and he likes to have lots of sonic options at his disposal. The look of this project was inspired by one of Steve Howe’s guitars, of Yes fame. We put in a pair of Fishman Fluence Classic Humbuckers through push-push volume and tone pots, allowing three distinct voices. The humbuckers surround a passive single coil pickup salvaged from the original set of pickups from the 1970s. All three pickups are wired through a 6…
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The UproariousRBG
Here’s a Re-imagination project we just finished. We took a 1972 Stella and turned it into a Rubber Bridge Guitar. We pulled the original tiny frets, then added a 12″ radius to the fingerboard. (Show of hands who knew that these catalog guitars had maple fingerboards hiding under the brown paint?) Then we fit it with larger nickel frets that modern players prefer. We added a K&K Pure Mini pickup attached to the soundboard under the rubber bridge saddle, and put in a split rail humbucker at the neck position. A set of Stringjoy Signature 11’s make her “Uproarious!” She’s finished in shellac. She’s likely to hit the market…
Brooklyn Fretworks
Baltimore Guitar REPAIR-BUILD-MODIFY
