Kelly Custom Instruments and Repair

Looking for people to share a work shop with in Atlanta. I have all the machines needed to make guitars and 13 years experience building a repairing guitars. Could be shared with anyone in the musical repair or hand made world. Open to ideas! Could also be any fine woodworker! I have a wide belt thickness sander through a cyclone dust collector.

A workbench is a reflection of self; past, present, and future.

Here’s a 2000 Charles Fox in for a little more neck angle and a new set of frets.

Also trying new mats to put guitars on, ten years of carpet scraps No more!

A new repair idea in the works here, more to come, stay tuned!

This is a 1969 Gibson J-50, to date, this is some of the best repair work I have ever done. A particularly hard repair had to happen here, the top was sooooo caved in! a bridge plate replacement witch eventually led me to lift the x brace and re-dome the top. All through the sound hole. I then replaced it with a b.r.w. bridge plate. The guitar was then refretted and had its saddle filled and recut, Gibson has it in such the wrong spot. In this photo you see the original bridge plate. I got it off the inside in one peace but had to brake it inhalf to get it out the sound hole.

What a sound what a playing experience what a job!

I call this idea the monolute.