Welcome to your new home for TONE!
Big John's Guitars - repair and custom guitar shop.By appointment only please.
Stay tuned for more pics and custom options.
John is a wizard at guitar setups and fret work on necks.
He is a master at guitar electronics as well.
Do yourself a favor and contact him to work wonders on your stringed instrument today.
"John - thanks for all the
great work you have done for me! Your fret dress really brought my
American Standard Tele back to life - now it plays amazingly well and
sounds perfectly in tune, even with heavy strings. I've always felt
that having a properly set up guitar is the most important part of the
tone equation - I don't need a custom shop guitar when this one sounds
and plays just as good, if not better." Jacob Wise of the grammy award winning UNT one o clock jazz band
"Thanks for the
killer setup you did on the Gibson double cut. You are the setup master. that thing sounds and plays amazing now." Jason
"Hey Big John this is Ray. That tele you custom built is the finest playing guitar I have owned.You are right about the big frets, so much sustain. For anybody wondering how the
series tele mod sounds, it is too cool. You put that thing in the middle pos. and boom! Solo time and still looks stock. I can not wait for my next one." R.R.
Big fan of Big John's work!
Hey People, how many times have you sat down to play, and you
figure out that you are engaged in the fight of your life because your
guitar is holding you back? then you go and watch one of the big boys
and he makes playing look almost effortless.There is a reason for that.
Have you ever listened to someone playin a strat and realized that a
strat does not produce
the sounds you are hearing? That there is more
sound between your fingers than is making it to the amp...and it
does'nt matter how much you paid for the guitar..there is
something
seriously wrong with this picture..everybody should have a guitar that
helps them to do what they are trying to do. So you take the guitar to
somebody and they set it up and you get it back only to find that the
luthier did only just that? and guess what you just paid 50-100 bucks
to someone who just wanted your money, did the bare minimum handed back
your guitar and now it plays in tune but you are still fighting the
guitar. John is someone who takes the time to evaluate the guitar and
figure out what needs to be done to take it from being a attractive
looking wood sculpture, to making it an actual instrument you can play
and do something with-I've had brand new instruments( out of the box)
that needed a fret level-Fenders are notorious for this(the frets can
actually stifle the sound the guitar produces imagine the disappointment with that, 1200.00 for a frikin wood sculpture, about
all you can say about that is uhmm shiny. John will help you with all
of this and it won't be voodoo vintage crap - it will be what it needs,
I can personally recommend the
series/parallel strat wiring, and the
fret leveling you won't believe how much that will help you!!!
Wildman
Hey John
I really appreciate the time and effort you put in to my
strat. The action is better than it's every been. You have my loyalty
as a customer on all my guitars. The thing (
series tone mod for strat)you did with my tone knob
was cool and sounds great.
KEM FRANKLIN
