Featured Work

I have HUNDREDS of galleries of past work to share. If you're a satisfied client, and are cool with my sharing your before/after shots, I'd love to add your beauty to this page.

Hatem Megaly

A complete stranger wrote to me. “Please install an L.R. Baggs Anthem into my new Furch Red Series Alpine top. And promise not to scratch my guitars like the other luthier.”  A FURCH?!? Twist my arm!
The night before we were to meet…I got COVID, and couldn’t have him in the shop. Mr. Megaly had to hang out at a Tim Horton’s while I worked on this OUTSTANDING guitar (go look it up…premium guitars.) My brain was very Covid-foggy, but it sounds fantastic plugged and unplugged. And I did not scratch your guitar, good sir!

Will, you made the road I took today something really nice for me to hit again, I trusted your work based in others experiences, but now, I trust you because of my own one. Simply, THANK YOU SIR 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

The Gallagher Gallery: Brian Gallagher, Esq.

Oh, Gallagher…where to begin? He’s a wordsmith, a virtuoso, an entertainer, a bon-vivant and a proper imp. He’s released several excellent albums and also does production. And strikingly handsome, to boot. These are only a smattering of the instruments we’ve collaborated on. iCloud ate the other photos.

Brians says: “For years now I have trusted Will and La Grange Guitar Workshop with my vintage collection as well as my everyday working guitars, both electric and acoustic. The dedication to quality workmanship combined with fair and friendly service makes La Grange a winning combination for any novice or seasoned musician.”

Ian Hanchet: Musician Extraordinaire

 

“Aside from being a very funny and insanely intelligent man, I trust Will with all of my guitars. He treats them with reverence and approaches the work with true joy. Bonus is you get to see some horses!”

La-Grange-Guitars Studio Workshop

The “Switcheroo.” Swapped all hardware and guts from one to the other to make the perfect guitar.

Owner: Roland Gus Lowe

Acoustic Bridge re-glue and clamp. 

Humidity, heat and age can result in lifted bridges.

La-Grange-Guitars ES 335

ES 335

Owner: Tony Crissinger

La-Grange-Guitars ES 335

ES 335

Jimmy Page wiring schematic. 21 switch combinations.

La-Grange-Guitars-Martin

Martin guitars are very popular around here.

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1975 Strat

Restoration and setup of an old beauty

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Martin D35

New life to some old inlay work

La-Grange-Guitars Foenix

The Foenix Fuzzycaster!

Telecasters, Stratocasters, Les Pauls, SG’s and everything else under the sun. Never a dull moment here.

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Mandolin

Mandos, banjos, dobros…oh my!

Will McGowan

Bring them on!

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La Grange Guitars

The “revolving door” of cool instruments. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…

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