Made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast. Never meant to last, never meant to last......................Jimmy Buffett

Ed Beaver Guitars

750 Cowan Street

Nashville, TN 37207

615-714-5593

 

 

     

 

 

         

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This shop is a Warranty center for:

             

Welcome!

Ed Beaver Guitars is an instrument repair shop in Nashville, Tennessee. I provide efficient guitar repair services to musicians. 

These links are to folks who have shown interest in and supported the shop.

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I spoke with a friend and he mentioned the marvels of computer aided guitar repair and building.

 

I prefer my food and music handmade.

CAD cannot put the feel into an instrument. CAD doesn't know you or me. CAD creates no beauty, just redundancy.  How do you measure love?

 

Every musical instrument has a life of its own. In the hands of a player who appreciates quality, the instrument can be a tool to create beauty. Using broad sweeping strokes like a paint brush or minute shavings as with a chisel or plane, a guitarist can make his soul visible and audible to the universe.

 

I treat every instrument with this in mind.

 

Thanks for coming to the site and thanks for the opportunity to say this .....  

PS:

If you pick up an instrument and it does not speak to you, please put it down. Either you are not listening or it is not yours.

One of the last instruments before the fall of the empire. Jarrell Lamar has done quite well for himself. I always knew he would.

 

Check out www.myspace.com/jerrelllamar.

It is good to see one of the babies. Bartolini P/J pickups/Badass Bridge/Schaller Tuners.

Dear Ed,
 
   I am so happy to find you again. I hope you remember me from Dallas when you built one of your 5 string basses for me when I was doing "American JukeBox" in Dallas around mid 80's.
   I have been living overseas since 92 and currently in Lisbon. I go to Houston as much as I can, but Dallas much less, but do miss the time when things were better then.
   Many years I tried to reach you, but this was before the internet thing took off and I stopped trying. Until today looking at the bass you built I realized it would be nothing to find you now.
   So I'm reporting to you that the bass did serve me well for many years, I did have some problems with constantly adjusting the neck because of the extreme temperatures in Belgium.  I thought it had a great tone, even when I went to Japan in 91 the techs at the "Bayside Club in Yokohama loved it and wanted to know more. Do you know how hard it is to impress the Japanese with a product they didn't make???!!!I could only tell them that you built it and it was a prototype.
   Any way I included what the bass looks like today painted (sorry).............................. excerpt from e-mail contact from Jerrell.

So there I was, working in the shop and Ladd Smith sends a friend in to have a signature Merle Travis Martin worked on. He is my new best friend Thom Bresh. Click his name for his website. I am loving this place more and more!

Ladd Smith has been seen in the area. He is starting to come out into the public eye more and if you have not heard of him, here is your chance to be on the inside. Check him out!

This young man with the old guitar is Danny Radar.

 

Danny is considered Country Music royalty as he is a 3rd generation Country Cat. Danny is currently playing with Gretchen Wilson and was recently with Leanne Rhimes. He has just endorsed the Shadow Nanoflex system. I endorse him.

Keith Horne walks in with a couple of cases. In one is a gift from Teddy Gentry of "Alabama". The link is to his website.

 

This is the black MusicMan that Teddy played when the group was winning every award and dominating the charts.

 

The second is a custom MusicMan made for Keith Horne.

 

Keith is actually smiling because I am buying lunch.

Note:

Previously I had listed Teddy Gentry as Terry Gentry, proving, once again, that I do not know it all. Margaret, my wife has been trying to convince me of this for years.

 

My apologies to Teddy. No disrespect intended.

A gentleman walks in with a nice old Harmony guitar and asks me some questions on how to restore it. We talked and he says, "Didn't you used to write for Famous music?".

 

My life has changed because of that simple statement. All good questions should do that.

 

How much am I willing to do with the change is still in the works, but it looks promising.

 

He is the latest member of the Ed Beaver Guitar Owners club, with all the perks thereof..(One of which is instant recognition that the owner is a player and not a name collector.).

 

Jim has just finished an album "Can You Still Rock" (good one too!).

Jim Pasquale with the Original Flares

 

Jim is the guitar player on the left. That is an original Peavey electric in his hands. Do check out his site!

George Marinelli

Margaret and I went to see Bonnie Raitt at the Grand Ol' Opry.

She had this cool guitar player in her band that she kept raving about.

A couple of months later, he walks into the shop with an Epiphone that needed some help.

 He turns out to be one of the nicest and friendliest people I have met in Nashville.

He has got it down! Check his site out.

http://www.georgemarinelli.com/

 

Craig Wallace is the type of artist I have always wanted to hang with.

He has played this guitar for over 25 years.  He has done it well.

He named this guitar Pinky.

For some reason, most of the people who own my guitars name them.

I suspect it is because they each have their own personality.

His CD is available at http://www.dallasbluesguitar.com.

Don't look for corporate marketing or heavy distribution deals. Craig has a very low BS tolerance.

Suits me just fine.

On the other hand, I am not so serious as to miss the silliness that is the reality of life on this planet.

 

Big cars, silicone body parts, media defining art, and now, this.

 

Is there no end to the insanity?

 

Not on this website.

 

This is not the governor of California.

Shop Hours:

Mondays 10:00 - 6:00

Tuesdays 10:00 - 6:00

Wednesdays 12:00 - 6:00

Thursdays 10:00 - 6:00

Fridays 10:00 - 4:00

 

Appointments can be made 24/7.

I try to be in the shop during posted hours.

Sometimes it is not possible.

Please call if you have a specific time you need to be there.

Disclaimer:

I made this myself.

The logos are borrowed from companies I do warranty work for.

If you must steal, steal my stuff and leave theirs alone.

If you must steal any of this, you need an imagination transplant and karmic enema.

Problems or concerns? Contact edbeaver@hotmail.com