Third Floor Guitars-Setup/Repair/Customize

Third Floor Guitars-Setup/Repair/Customize Tired of paying ridiculous prices for substandard guitar work? That ends today! Fender Certified. Taylor Certified.
20+ years experience. Pro home shop.

This is Mark. He’s the wildly imaginative and infallible guitar spirit who spotted an old Washburn Lyon body collecting ...
05/29/2026

This is Mark. He’s the wildly imaginative and infallible guitar spirit who spotted an old Washburn Lyon body collecting dust in the corner of the shop and envisioned a much higher purpose and fate for it. (I included a pic of the body below as discovered). We mated a Fender neck to it and routed it for a third humbucker. The pickups are from neck to bridge, a Duncan Jazz, Duncan Slash and Duncan JB. They are all wired for push/pull coil splitting. They are also wired independently unlike Gibson 3 bucker models where the middle is “always on”…you can roll in and out any pickup combo, split or unsplit that you want, literally a zillion combinations. This was a fun and unique build! Let’s build YOU a custom axe!

On The Bench Today:Quite the unusual build!A customer spotted an old Washburn body in the corner of the shop and asked i...
05/28/2026

On The Bench Today:
Quite the unusual build!
A customer spotted an old Washburn body in the corner of the shop and asked if I could mate it to a Strat neck he had…. AND route it for a 3rd humbucker!
After confirming the body would work with 25.5” scale, we plugged and redrilled the neck mount holes to see if the 2 pieces would jive together.
Then, we routed for the middle bucker and added a hole for a third volume.
More pics to come! Fun build!

On The Bench Today:US made Fender Jazzmaster Lee Ranaldo model!In for a setup and some Curtis Novak wide range humbucker...
05/26/2026

On The Bench Today:
US made Fender Jazzmaster Lee Ranaldo model!
In for a setup and some Curtis Novak wide range humbuckers.

Have a safe and happy long weekend, everyone…and don’t forget WHY we have a long weekend.❤️
05/22/2026

Have a safe and happy long weekend, everyone…and don’t forget WHY we have a long weekend.❤️

Back from the dead!!Family heirloom: 1958 Silvertone 1302 made by Danelectro!
05/19/2026

Back from the dead!!
Family heirloom: 1958 Silvertone 1302 made by Danelectro!

On The Bench Today:ANOTHER COOL VINTAGE DANELECTRO/SILVERTONE!This is the much fabled “amp in case” guitar!Yep, the 4 wa...
05/15/2026

On The Bench Today:
ANOTHER COOL VINTAGE DANELECTRO/SILVERTONE!
This is the much fabled “amp in case” guitar!
Yep, the 4 watt tube amp was built right into the case and for just $67.95 ($712 in 2026 dollars) you were ready to rock! This 1965 2 pickup model looks like it was pulled up from the Titanic and the elbow grease is on the way…..

80+ years ago with WWII raging and D-Day nowhere in sight yet, a guitar tech, most likely an older man “not fit for figh...
05/14/2026

80+ years ago with WWII raging and D-Day nowhere in sight yet, a guitar tech, most likely an older man “not fit for fightin’, pounded the frets into this Gibson Southern Jumbo in Kalamazoo, Michigan. And 8 decades later….I replaced them.
Here’s to another 80 years of this ‘ol gal making music!

Slowly bringing the ‘58 Danelectro/Silvertone back from hell!
05/14/2026

Slowly bringing the ‘58 Danelectro/Silvertone back from hell!

On The Bench Today:Man I just love these guitars!This is a 1958 Silvertone 1302, manufactured by Danelectro in Neptune, ...
05/13/2026

On The Bench Today:
Man I just love these guitars!
This is a 1958 Silvertone 1302, manufactured by Danelectro in Neptune, NJ.
Danelectro made most of Sears & Roebuck’s guitars and amplifiers. This is a copy of their “U1” model, “U1” designating it a one lipstick pickup model. The neck and saddle are made out of gorgeous (and now highly illegal) Brazilian rosewood. The one pickup is run thru a 3 way switch and into a clever circuit: middle position removes the tone pot from the circuit like a blower switch, down is accentuated bass and up is accentuated treble. With the exception of one potentiometer, this guitar looks to be 100% original! Got any old Danelectros or Silvertones? Post in comments, we’d love to see ‘em!

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