I am pleased to announce the launching of two brand new online courses at O'Brien Guitars: Setup and Repair with luthier Greg Maxwell and Repair and Restoration with Robert O'Brien. Both courses are available at a discounted price for a limited time.
Doing repair work requires a different skill set than building an instrument. That is why Greg and I have put together these courses that specifically address the skills needed to do quality repair and restoration work. Over the course of more than a year we documented several instruments that came across our benches. Some only needed a simple setup but others required a complete restoration.
In these courses we show how to evaluate an instrument when it comes into the shop and decide what needs to be done, develop a plan of attack for the work needed and then how to execute the repair, be it structural or cosmetic. I am sure you will pick up a few tricks along the way as Greg and I show how we do repairs and setups on a variety of instruments.
Happy Building!