Description: Gazer Guitars, Overacker Guitars, Custom Handbuilt Electric, Electro-Acoustic, Hybrid, and MIDI Guitars by Luthier, Michael Overacker, in Roanoke Virginia
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by Michael Overacker Overacker Guitars is a division of Decent Exposure Photographics. Overacker Guitars was started in 1992 as Gazer Guitars, a custom guitar builder for the demanding instrument buyer. Overacker Guitars are built to the customers specifications, and no design is completely ruled out unless physically impossible. Overacker Guitars uses domestic and exotic hardwoods and, sometimes, softwoods in the production of the guitars. We are aware and concerned about the senseless deforestation of the
Thi s guitar is a 1958 Guild X-50. The guitar was purchased with a poor polyurethane finish on it. Even with the bad finish, the guitar sounded fantastic, and was worth saving. The old clear polyurethane was stripped and sanded away, the old binding that was pulling away from the body from shrinkage was removed as well.. After some mild body prep, new cream binding was installed and trimmed for fit. Then a thin, dark cherry sunburst notrocellulose finish was applied front and back, as well as the sides. A t
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 g