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REPAIR & RESTORATION GALLERY 3

New natural banjo skin replacement by Nicole Alosinac Luthiery

New Skin for a Kingston Ludwig Tenor Banjo


This Kingston Ludwig tenor banjo has a natural banjo skin that has torn and needs to be replaced. A natural skin head can dry out and rip easily if it gets dehydrated.
Original Duolian Dobro Resonator repair by Nicole Alosinac Luthiery

Original Duolian Dobro Resonator Repair


This Dobro was hard to play with very high action and its owner wanted to play it guitar style. It needed a neck reset, some repairs to the structrual housing of the cone and a new nut to give it a new lease on life. It left the shop sounding and feeling good as new!
New Handmade Bridge for an Alvarez D70 by Nicole Alosinac Luthiery

New Handmade Bridge for an Alvarez D70


This Alvarez D70 came into the shop with the bridge lifting and cracked. To keep this guitar playing it needed a new bridge. This particular bridge is not run of the mill and needed to be made by hand to keep the original look design of the guitar. Wood selection, grain direction and precise work are needed for any bridge which sits in the heart of tone prodution on any guitar.
Sawchyn A-5 Mandolin repair by Nicole Alosinac Luthiery

Sawchyn A-5 Mandolin


This mandolin needed the frets dressed, the bridge carved for proper intonation, and the McIntyre Feather pickup repositioned for more treble.