Guitar Tech Craig I started working on guitars in 1979 when I discovered that my favorite guitar could be better than what was created at the factory. Learning the basic concepts of wiring, controls, and pickups really opened my eyes. I read every book and article I could find about guitar electronics and found out that even though the concepts were basic, the options for wiring guitars are enormous. I quickly stopped thinking of a humbucking pickup as one pickup, but rather a 2 coils. There is actually no fewer than 6 ways to wire a standard 2 coil pickup if you include the single coil options. This would also apply to a guitar with 2 single coil pickups. Ever wonder if your Tele was missing a cool tone that’s just not on that 3-way switch? Well, I did. At the same time I was learning about guitar electronics, I was also learning and applying the skills to successfully repair and maintain guitars. It didn’t take long before I was doing all of the stringed instrument repair and maintenance for most of my friends...and their friends...and so on. For about 2 years in the late ‘80s, I worked with a friend making a few guitars from the ground up. I installed and slotted nuts, made pickguards from blank sheets of material, installed tremolo units, installed tuners, etc. I also designed and redesigned wiring schemes for these guitars, rewiring guitars after each new diagram I drew. I pretty much spent every Saturday night for a year and a half rewiring guitars and eating pizza. This provided me with loads of experience in coming up with wiring schemes to create the tones that the customer had in his head. I was forced to push the limits of what a switch and a few controls could do. I also discovered that there is a point at which greater flexibility becomes impractical; keeping it flexible and simple was a challenge. We did end up with great guitars, and I ended up with a lot of valuable experience. Since the early years, I have continued to repair guitars, fixing badly broken ones and making good ones even better. I haven’t played a guitar that couldn’t be improved, and I haven’t owned a guitar that I didn’t modify. I have also studied the mysterious science of pickup construction and learned the difference between making good-sounding pickups and great-sounding pickups. At some point, I decided to make my experience and talents available to the public - first by starting this website and helping people all over the world though email - and more recently by providing a setup, repair, and rewiring service. At some point, I’d like to like to start building guitars, but that would depend entirely on me being able to produce a superior product to other guitars while remaining competetively priced. When people pick up guitars I’ve worked on, I expect them to go, "Wow!" If I were to build a guitar, I would expect the same reaction when you play it, when you hear it, and when you pay for it. If I can manage to put all of those three things together, I might just have to build a few... I'm currently doing business as Guitar Tech Craig and working on instruments by appointment. I bring a valuable service to local musicians and am able to provide personalized service. I't important to me and my customers that I understand their expectations and return an instrument that meets or exceeds those expectations. I can even provide pickup and delivery service when necessary. "Guitar Tech" Craig