I built this guitar as a gift from Lisa Willis to her husband Dave Willis for their 10th anniversary wedding present. Dave writes, produces and voices characters on the late night hit TV series Aqua Teen Hunger Force (recently renamed Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 and more recently rebirthed as Aqua Something You Know Whatever) […]

A nice gentleman walks into the shop with this SG and asks if I could plug the holes behind the bridge. He wants to give it to a family member as a gift after playing the guitar for years. The guitar was built with a different bridge and had at some point, probably in the […]

As often is the case in the guitar repair universe, a customer brings in a beautiful old guitar that at some point had received the wrong repair. Kind of like when good dogs do bad things, this 1940’s Gibson AJ had an accident at the sunburst booth. The Gibson AJ from this era is to […]

Repairing and replacing the back after someone made a mess.

A sad guitar came into the shop. It had been in a bad house fire along with many other instruments.  I felt terrible for the man who owned the guitar, but luckily for he and his family they were all right. This unbelievably great 1954 Telecaster that he had owned for years was in its […]

Somewhere in time a piece of this Guild Artist Awards inlay went missing. When the guitar arrived on my bench i set out to replicate the missing piece to bring this great and iconic Guild inlay back to life.

When Alex Glasser of Iron Horse Instruments graduated from the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery  … (read full article in Fretboard Journal) Watch the Video of Dana Playing His Uke

I am extremely pleased to announce that Iron Horse Instruments was featured in The Fretboard Journal. There is a 2 page interview with Dana Snyder and myself, conducted and written by Michael Simmons. There are also some great photographs. Please pick it up and support a wonderful magazine as well as the Iron Horse. fretboardjournal.com