Restoration

During the 1950s and 1960s, Maton sold a line of guitars under the "Alver" brand (apparently the name was a conjunction of Bill May's wife's name, and that of his brother's wife). This example was my customer's grandmother's guitar, and has obviously been played and loved. The budget didn't allow for a full restoration - the brief was to make the guitar playable again. I did find some time for some finish work (shellac). The tuners are Hosco/Gotoh vintage. Here are "before

We recently had one of these quite unusual guitars on the bench for a "resurrection" - not quite a restoration, but not far off. The...

Some really interesting old instruments in this week. First up, a 50th birthday present for my customer: a beautiful 50 year old Tele in...