This Early 60's Gibson ES-330 was brought to us in need of some restorative work. What's particularly cool about this old guitar is that belonged to Bettie Buckland, who was a professional banjo player in the 1960's. The guitar belongs to her two sons, Tom and Andy.

The first thing we did was remove the current tuners. At some point, the screw heads had become fatigued so there were a few broken screws that had to be carefully pulled out with other tools;. Since the tuning machine holes had to be widened out for the die-cast tuners, we will use conversion bushings so that the new, smaller tuners will fit nicely.

Once we had the infomration we needed, we took the strings off and began pulling frets. You can see here that there is some chipping and debris that came up with the fret.

Here, you can see the fretboard after the chips had been glued down. You are also seeing a close up of he fret that has had the tang nipped off to fit inside the binding.

Here we have the new frets after they have been crowned and polished. We after this, we fashion a new nut out of nylon to match the original.

And here it is after being cleaned and a setup completed. This great old instrument has a lot of years left to make more music and memories and we hope the owners enjoy it as much as we enjoyed working on it.