RTH Guitars

Custom Instruments and Repair

360.388.1116

Edmonds, WA USA

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Gallery

Who doesn’t like pictures? Here are some examples of my work.

  • Fretless conversion in progress on this Godin bass
  • Spot leveling a couple of high frets
  • Level sanding a custom P-Bass body
  • Wenge headstock for a recent custom build
  • This old Epiphone needed the back re-glued
  • Our booth at the Seattle Guitar Show
  • This 58' Les Paul Junior DC needed the fretboard radius corrected and a re-fret
  • A Grateful Dead inspired custom inlay
  • Rob's custom made Model 72, coin inset next to jack, pearl spade fret dots
  • Model 72 headstock with Rob's signature in pearl irridescant, custom engraved truss rod cover
  • Back of the Model 72 with custom maple spline stiffeners and pearl spade inlay
  • Broken headstock on the Madison signature guitar, before repair
  • Broken headstock on the Madison signature guitar, after repair
  • The Ashley V, custom flying V, alder body, maple neck, ebony fretboard, abalone inlay
  • Ashley V headstock, custom headstock inlay, ebony peghead overlay
  • Back of the Ashley V, grain runs parralel to edges and meets in a v at the centerline with 58 style ferrules
  • Custom winding strat pickups
  • Custom built Tele, custom alder body, custom wound pickups, Mighty Mite neck, Gotoh hardware
  • Rewinding P-Bass pickups
  • Leveled and refinished fretboard, replaced fret dots, refretted, added DeArmond pickup
  • Fixed a ground problem with the bridge and upgraded the pickup
  • Plugging trem holes in a Strat body, restoring 6 point trem
  • Hand winding a tele bridge pickup
  • Freshly potted tele pickups
  • Cut down this 24" Slingerland kick drum from 18" to 16", trued it up, and re-cut the bearing edge
  • Trueing up a floor tom before recutting the bearing edge
  • Cutting an angle on a strat trem block to maximize travel
  • Experimental 3d printed keeper to replace steel baseplate
  • Custom wound pickups with pearl insets
  • Upgraded to Kluson locking tuners, a drop in replacement
  • Creative clamping to glue loose frets
  • Leveling fretboard and refretting a Kay Speed Demon
  • Rewinding Korean made Guild humbuckers for improved tone
  • Gluing in binding on custom V body
  • Soundboard crack repaired on this acoustic guitar
  • Resetting the neck on this 1953 Crafton guitar
  • Freshly cut bearing edges on these toms
  • Rewound bridge pickup, pinned roller bridge, upgraded to shielded wiring
  • Cleaning up sloppy humbucker routs on this 77 Gibson
  • An orphan Flying V kit guitar, finished in nitro lacquer, Gotoh tuners, Tone Pros bridge, CTS and Switchcraft components