As any working musician will tell you, instrument repair is a vital part of a thriving music scene. For many in the Huntsville area, BASF process development scientist Robert Sharpe — whose guitar modding practice is a side gig — is the go-to 🎸 wizard. ➡️
and longtime Fret Shop ace Brian Dawson. With Shepard approaching retirement age and Dawson moved on vocationally, there’s a need for a young gun to learn the old ways. Most local musicians would rather support a local guitar repairman instead of the big-box music-store chain.Enter, the 33-year-old Sharpe. The Meridianville native started playing guitar back in middle school, learning alongside his older brother. Initially, the music of modern-rock band Incubus inspired Sharpe to learn guitar.
“How can I do X, Y, and Z and get the guitar playing the way I want it to?” Sharpe says. “And just thinking about what those possibilities are.” Local alternative-rock musician Adam Renfro first heard about Sharpe’s guitar work via a Facebook post. Turns out they’d both attended Hazel Green High School at the same time.
Sharpe’s business took off from there. “Everybody started taking their gear to him,” Renfro said. “Huntsville is growing, and we need this kind of level of repair in town. Because there’s so many musicians in town like that are just, like, thriving to play and want to have a good guitar.” “The job at hand was to stabilize it [the binding],” Burton says, “and get it so that I wouldn’t be worrying about it while I was playing. Because I play indoor and outdoor gigs, and, you know, summertime Alabama humidity is not kind on instruments.”
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