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The Guitars you are going to see are all guitars of clients of Guitar Maven

Cape Coral, FL 33909

This is Rickey Medlocke from Skynyrd for a pot replacement. There is years of play on this axe. 1976 Ibanez Destroyer Korina. #Blackfoot #Ibanez #destroyer #rickey Michael G’s awesome IBanez 540P pretty rare My 2005 Charvel Reissue Series getting restrung My view of Blackfoot 2012 (Tech for the guitars)

This is Tony R’s from the band Godsmack. This is an all original 1964 Fender Strat he brought in for a refret. The frets were well worn and needed to be replaced. He went with the monster Dunlop 6100’s. This guitar is amazing.

Tony R. from Godsmack 1964 Fender Strat

Tony R. #Godsmack

This is a bad ass Music Zoo Mahogany Charvel custom shop natural series strat in for a pickup swap. The customer wanted Bare Knuckle pickups. It sounded awesome.

tmz mahogany natural series.

This is a killer Charvel made in USA Pro mod that was refinned by Mike Learn #mikelearn He did this in a Korean war era MIG fighter. This is a killer axe.

Here is one with a cool story. This belongs to Tony R. Of Godsmack. This guitar had been in an accident and was needing to be rebuilt. So we ordered new pickups from #seymourduncan and WD Music. New Neck, Pots and Pickups. check out the neckplate.

Tony R. Of Godsmack picking up his guitar.

Here are some more of Tony’s guitars. This is a Suhr with a roasted maple neck (black one) and noiseless pickups. The Olympic white is his Yngwie Malmsteen in for a pickup swap. Is it weird that Tony plays strats? He does! He has a side project with Shannon Larkin (Godsmack) it is called Blue Cross. I’m a huge fan of Tony’s can you tell?

These next photos all have captions. We aren’t close to being done uploading pics yet. Enjoy. #Godsmack #tonyrombola #timrossi #blackfoot #charvel #gibson Ibanez #evertune #skynyrd #rickeymedlocke #blackfootnation #wdmusicproducts #davespurlock

Mike G’s Fire crackle 3dr Vintage MIJ Charvel

Tony R. Of Godsmack picking up his guitar.

Tony Rombola’s Pick This is cool

This is a sonic blue Yngwie Strat and Tony

Kirk from Down, Kings of sorrow, crowbar. He wasn’t here but that is a vintage Charvel so its’ here.

Tim Rossi and Rex Bongo in rehearsal #blackfoot #timrossi

I installed an Evertune in Tim’s guitar

Ok this is not my guitar but it is my father’s cars a Ferarri and a Porsche 911 Targa

This is what the evertune looked like in the guitar.

Close up #evertune which really stays in tune

The Next 3 pics are Rickey’s 1976 Ibanez Destroyer

Rickey Medlocke (Skynyrd)

Rickey Medlocke (Skynyrd) #blackfoot

Tim Rossi Blackfoot latest #evertune install

Front shot this turned out killer

Looks awesome #LTD #evertune #blackfoot

Look at the hole needed for the bridge.

It’s a large hole. Tim says these are worth it

These guitars were brought in for Floyd Rose installs. They belong to Rick DiFonzo he is the current guitar player for The Fixx

Rick Di Fanzo brought over some cool old guitars. Schecter with a stra head 80s

Schecter strathead

This guitar was made for EVH and was given to Rick in 1984

EVH

I got the story first hand from Rick

Rick’s Strat in for a Floyd Rose install

#floydrose

#fender #strat

#backside

These photos all have captions. Just random work that came in to #guitarmaven

Tim Rossi in Studio Sea

Single coils can be NOISY so we shield the control cavity

More shielding

copper

Fender custom shop

Tim Rossi’s Merlot during evertune install

Evertune

Merlot

Doing a test run

I was thanking god it worked. This was the first one I had installed

#backside

#evertune

My bench

Not many times you see a double neck Yairi

Alvarez Yairi

This was a massive guitar

No fun to string this beast

Control Cavity Shielding

100% copper

Jazzy looking and less noisy

Tim Rossi’s Gus G with an #evertune

#evertune

Back side Gus G

Did I say we do Basses too this is a fret level on an Ibanez Soundgear

fret level

labor intensive taping these boards

Ibanez soundgear

Charvel USA Abdella with carbonized maple neck

Backstage to Godsmack! Janet was in a wheelchair so we didn’t get to go 😦

Mike G’s Charvel 3dr

Guild Acoustic in for a bridge reglue

This is Tim Rossi’s Eclipse. It has some high spots in the frets. It fretted out in the higher registers. We fixed that. Erlewine Neck jig keeps the neck under tension while I level the frets.