WL Vintage Stringed Instruments

Recent find. Very cool early 1900’s Lyon & Healy made Montgomery Wade Thornward bowl back mandolin. Those fingerboard inlays drew me right in! Overall, not too bad of shape. Fixed a separating back seam now working on some split top brace ends. Next, new bridge and some cleanup.

Come on down to Sunday, Oct 29th 1-3:45pm for some old timey banjo pluckin’, fiddle sawin’, and guitar pickin’ goodness!

Fiddling around Sunday AM.

Had one of the most satisfying repairs lately. My good pickin’ pal John turned 80 recently. I was able to repair his father’s old ukulele in time for his old time jam party yesterday. As soon as I gave it to him he gifted it to his three year old grandson visiting from the east coast. It was a magical moment! So happy to help with family treasures!

I finished this fun project up a while ago. It is a great little guitar and is now available on Reverb. Check out the details below: 1969 Harmony H927 Guitar for Sale (Lots of Work, Player Ready)!
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Next up a 69’ H927 Harmony guitar. Not in too of bad shape. Back coming off with some back cracks and loose braces. Will be a neat little birch box once complete!

Back to the banjos. Old Fairbanks this time. Someone “installed” more modern tuners and caused the cheek of the peghead to split off 😞. Lots of work to do.

Lots of work done on this 67’ Silverstone and now she’s a player! Available on Reverb.com.

Sunday evening slow down with Ted Woodford and beverage.

“Penetration is paramount” .woodford

It’s neck pullin’ time in Alberta. Neat old Kay archtop has a loose neck.