Hello my name is Clay.  I am starting this blog to try to promote my long time hobby of building and modding pedals.  I started doing work for friends a couple years ago, and after much compliments, asking for more, suggestive innuendo, and direct demands.  I have begun offering my service to the public and with much success.  I am opening this blog to spread the word even further and allow people to check out some of my work.

I do low priced work for the musician.  I care about your sound and I love spending tons of time finding out exactly what people want to do with their rigs.  I do a number of things for guitarists and other electric or acoustic string players...
*Build custom effects pedals, clones of vintage and modern boutique pedals, you pick the colors, graphics, knobs, switches to add, knobs to add or subtract, more bass, less bass- anything you want.
There is really no limit to what I can build.  I don't build some stuff based on principals.  I really like building unique twists on classic vintage pedals (Like fuzz faces with extra controls, rangemasters with treble/high mid/mid/low mid boosts , or stuff that is discontinued and/or outrageously priced, I have no respect for some of these companies that think they can slap a $300 price tag on an overdrive pedal.  These companies don't even use the quality of parts that I use in most cases.  They don't have near the costs or labor that I have, and still demand ridiculous profit margins.  I don't get it. 
*I modify effects pedals- I can do custom mods, many of the "famous" guys mods, and we can even create your own special mod.  This includes upgrading components (pimping your cheap pedal), changing the eq, clipping section, adding switches, making the pedal better useable for different instruments like synth and bass or using pedals in a mixer. 
*I love working on guitars- I do
---Fretwork- Complete-professional fret leveling, crowning and polishing- this with a complete setup is the single best thing you can do to a guitar- even new fender americans and other nice guitars- to improve playability.  having properly leveled and crowned frets with greatly improve intonation- you can put your action as high or low as you want- I also polish the frets to a mirror finish.  its like bending on glass frets.  I can make mexican fenders easily outplay their american counterparts.  I make americans play better.  I use professional tools that I paid a lot of money for.  Do not believe in those ebay fret leveling kit scams.  There is some serious time, measurement, and efforts that go into this.  I have some guitars that I have worked on at my shop that you can play to check out the benefits.  If you're having any buzzing on any frets, want lower action, better intonation, or just a guitar that plays like the frets are made out of glass, come to me.  I will even re-polish your frets for you every couple months for next to nothing, or I can teach you how to maintain the polish yourself!
--- Setups- complete- using proper technique- saddle to fretboard radius matching- nut height to first fret- pickup height- truss rod adjustments- tremolo adjustments- I can make your guitar play better than new.
--- Electronic mods and installs (pickups, pots, switching mods etc)
--- I do a killer strat setup- I can install new bridges, make your floating strat trem stay in tune, install new nuts, adjust old ones, everyithing you can think of.
--- I can do a lot of stuff, but my luthier work is somewhat limited from major renovations such as acoustic neck resets and other expensive acoustic work- at this point at least
*I also work on amps.  Everything from repairs to modifications to tube bias adjustments for very reasonable prices.  The best price in town guaranteed, and work done by a guy that actually gives a shit about YOU and what YOU want.  I do...

---Cap jobs, component upgrades, tube installs and bias (I can even let you demo some of my preamp tube stock, fender 'normal' channel hot rodding, blackfacing, blues jr mods, blues deville mods, reissue mods, etc... etc...marshall mods, orange tiny terror mods, class 5 mods, tons of fender dual channel mods, I love replacing tone and coupling caps- I use film and foil caps (or whatever you want- paper in oil etc) I do a test to figure out which lead connects to the outer foil- then install the capacitor the 'correct' way in the amp.  This is something that is nescessary in the audiophile world, but has been forgotten as of recent in the guitar amp world- and sometimes never done.  This technique seperates those old 'super mojo magic' amps from the 'good ones', I do bigger projects like the SRV super reverb and vibro mods, Jerry Garcia Twin mods.
-I also like to help people put together parts guitars from parts making companies like warmoth, allparts, USACG and musikraft.  I can help you buy hardware and components that will work and fit with your body and neck, as well as help get you better prices and build a guitar that will sound good as a system!

Just email me for more info on how I can help you.  I can do much more than listed here.  I do this in support of my own chasing of the tone.  I am not operating a huge business.  Just wanna help my friends and other local musicians out with quality work for less!