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Originally Posted by neatomic
It was like walking into a different world back then. I didn't know the accordion was big in Dominican music (Meringue Typico) back then, and Alex Accordions was loaded with kids playing the accordions.
I was referred by a friend who went to Carlo for years, and told me he was Kenny Burrell's repairman. He also was the man responsible for the Guild JS Model. Later on, Carlo started losing it, and effed up a fret job on my friend's D'A that had him crying and losing sleep. He finally took it to Flip Scipio, and he straightened it out for him.
I let Carlo have my D'A for however long it took to make it as good as possible, and told him to do whatever he wanted with it.Carlo made me play my D'A before he'd take the job, and told me I played very well, and he'd be glad to do the job. He told me not to call him, and six months later he called me and told me it was done.
He did a lot of things to it; new frets, repaired cracks, fixed the tuners, gave it a lacquer job, put on some old D'A fret markers that he had laying around in his shop for years,and the binding, all for $500. It looked incredible.
The fret job was okay, but I got Roger Borys to work on it a bit. Roger loves that guitar, and insisted on making a real D'A bridge of his own, which was much better than the stock bridge my father had an LI shop put on it. He also put a new pickguard on it, modeled after a picture of my father playing it in a band picture from the late 30's.
Carlo wanted to buy the D'A from me and offered to trade it for one of his own guitars, but I told him I wasn't interested.
I went downstairs and showed it to Rudy, and he wanted to buy it also, and offered to trade a Gibson Pat Martino solid body L-5 for it. I wasn't interested.
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06-13-2020 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by sgcim
Don’t call me? And then 6 months later he told you it was done?
And the frets had to be fixed by Roger Borys?
Wow. Next time I see my Brian I am gonna hug him and give him a kiss on the cheek. He tells you “my backlog is 3 weeks. In 3 weeks I call you. You bring the guitar the day after.“ You come back 3 days after that to pick up the guitar.
That’s the way you do business. “Don’t call me”? Oh boy...
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carlo greco had some real nyc street cred...he was a mover with guild guitars for years, before opening his own shop...and it sounds like s' D'A needed lots of work...different times yes...but much the same as waiting for a mr. campellone guitar for a year...these luthiers are in an exalted position...earned by years of dedication & known good work...
younger guys working for other people have to work at a different speed
good to have both options!!
guitar repairs can take awhile...even a simple set up needs some time while things settle...the quick fix is not necessarily the best fix
cheers
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Originally Posted by neatomic
That picture of 48th street brings back memories for sure. I lived in NYC from 1969-1978. The City was very cool in those days........
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SS, Very cool.. Right down the street from there, I was playing Feels So Good on a 335 at a Music store and I looked up and Grant Geissman was standing right in front of me! He said, hey man that was very close. I almost fainted. I asked him what Phaser he used. He told me it was the black MXR. I bought it and still have it!
JD
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Originally Posted by QAman
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Originally Posted by Max405
Flip Scipio had to pull all the frets out, and do it all over again.
Roger said Greco had done the other work okay on my D'A, but he did have to do some fret filing on it.
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Originally Posted by MCampellone
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it's amazing that D'Aquisto didn't completely fall apart being left in an attic during the summer
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Originally Posted by Max405
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
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Originally Posted by MCampellone
Nice job Mark. btw, did you consider tinting the binding or just let it age naturally?
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attic type environment is killer....on woods, glues. plastics/binding..everything...extended periods of heat and low humidity is a guitar killer...why cactus and joshua trees can exist in the desert...not spruce!!!
wood, 50's plastics and everything else will shrink under those horrific conditions...great that the maestro Jimmy D's guitar could be rescued (a testament to his build!)...i'm sure he is smiling down with gratitude on mr. campellones efforts...
and so happy to hear of your strong post surgery recovery!!
cheers
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Originally Posted by deacon Mark
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Originally Posted by neatomic
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Originally Posted by vinnyv1k
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Originally Posted by wintermoon
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