This guitar is a Gazer Guitar, built by Michael Overacker. The guitar features a solid birdseye maple neck, mahogany body with a bookmatched flamed maple top. The pickups are a single coil Jackson in the neck position and a humbucking Jackson in the bridge position. The guitar has a toploading bridge and Schaller tuners in black chrome. The guitar has a LP style pickup selector and master tone and volume knobs, also in black chrome. The finish is a cherry sunburst in lacquer on the body and clear lacquer on the neck in a thin finish.

This image is a custom made guitar for a contest involving WROV-FM 96.3. The contest involved using the WROV logo in a unique way. The Guitar is a solid mahogany body, maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. Schaller tuners, an AllParts Top Loading bridge and a Jackson Humbucking pickup fill out the top gear. The guitar was shot black, the logo was cut from vinyl and applied, and then multiple clearcoats before final buffing. The guitar won second place in the contest. My prize?.......a Peavey Electric Guitar signed by 38 Special.

The guitar to the left is a 1958 Les Paul Special. I purchased this guitar to rebuild. It had a broken headstock that was improperly repaired at the wrong angle with epoxy and wood screws. There was no electronics or parts in the body. I re-broke the headstock and carefully cleaned out the epoxy to get to some good wood. I wanted to strengthen the repaired area, so I routed an area in the headstock and neck and inlaid a piece of G10 fiberglass to reinforce the break. I then matched and cut 2 splints out of mahogany and grafted them above and below the break. The neck was then reformed. The mahogany splints were then darkened to match the old mahogany, and a small amount of matched finish was applied. Parts were obtained, including reissue tuners from AllParts and Gibson P-90 pickups. The guitar plays, looks, and sounds great, and the repaired area is stronger than ever.

This guitar is a 1958 Les Paul TV Junior. I purchased this guitar to restore.  It was painted an off-white color. What is unusual about this guitar is that it does not have the standard TV Junior headstock, as the headstock has a custom leaf Mother of Pearl inlay. I figured that this guitar had a original cherry finish, so that was the finish I was going to shoot. After I stripped the white finish, I was checking the guitar out and as I looked in the wire passages, I noticed the original TV finish. This guitar originally did not have a cherry finish. It was a TV Junior.  I sent photos of the stripped guitar to Gibson, and they verified it was a 50's Junior, but did not have specific info from the serial number since records have been lost, but due to the headstock, it was quite possibly custom. I refinished this guitar TV yellow using finishes from Guitar ReRanch and reassembled it.  This junior ROCKS! It looks great, sounds great, plays great, and it is a welcome addition to my collection.

Here they are together. Both have been restored to how they should look. 

The 1958 Gibson Les Paul TV Junior on the left was refinished. The brighter yellow is the telltale sign.

The 1958 TV Special has the original finish, darkened, no doubt, by many years in smoky bars and clubs. The headstock is holding up well, and she still plays like a dream. However, a refret may soon be in order, as the originals are getting thin.