About Chappell Guitars
Chappell Guitars was established in 1969. I began as a teenager building fine custom instruments, unusual and usual. I soon moved into repairing guitars when it became apparent that having an instrument in good working order was the priority for most musicians. Over the past
decades I have repaired/restored literally 1000’s of instruments, mostly
guitars. I developed During the eighties and nineties musical instrument companies, even the top contenders, began mega-mass producing guitars, basses, etc., generating a glut of mediocre instruments. During this time it was difficult to find a real hand-made instrument, and I designed and built many custom instruments for individual musicians. I began to build relationships with other companies that still had as their main focus building fine instruments. For example, Fender needed a west-coast repair representative, and Chappell Guitars became the factory authorized service dealer at the highest level in 1978 and maintained this relationship until recently. I still do
repairs and restorations while at the same time focusing on custom building for
performers and prototyping for other larger companies.
Fender Musical Instruments: Gold–Gold-Gold factory-authorized service center 1978 - 2009 Gibson: factory-authorized service center 1980 -1985 Nation Resophonic: factory-authorized service center 1985-present Roland: factory-authorized service center 1985 -2001 RMC Pickups:
authorized premier installer/prototype developer 1985- present
Elvin Bishop Band John Lee Hooker Johnny Winter
Band Dave Mason Steve Miller Band Quicksilver Messenger Service (the original w/ Gary Duncan) And other Bay Area bands too numerous to mention
Numerous small
and large music stores from
Prairie Sun
Studios,
Bay Studios, Underscore
Studios,
Underscore
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