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A few more shots of 12 day guitar

Fiestas

Since we are a cultural association, I became involved in making a guitar for the fiestas of our barrio. The plan was to raffle of the guitar the last day of the festival. I worked on it two days in the plaza, and 10 more days in the shop, with some help from friends.Varnished with nitro, not alot. These are some photos of the 12 day wonder. Came out with a very nice sound, but I don't know if I'll do it next year

Hofner Mania

Ivasion of Hofner basses. This not long after the guitar that I re-set. And three of the four also are here for neck resets. Like they have a self-destructive clock built in. The first one was the same straight neck joint as the guitar had, but the german one has a neck joint with a tongue like a Gibson. Complicated. I'll get started next week with it.The bass in the photo was made in Spain.

September

September almost gone, and haven't posted anything. Waiting to load the last round of photos. meanwhile, I'm preparing a guitar for the fiestas del barrio. Going to give a small demo on guitar building, and then raffle off the guitar. Here's a few more photos of associates work. David acoustic, Sergio with a fine Tele type. Also a few more shots of the bass neck fitting. Thanks

Hofner Guitar

She came in with the neck pulling out from heat, and really bad glue. It was like glued in with rubber. Although it looked like an easy removal, I had a hard time getting it loose. Cleaned up, well shimed, and glued, really very little retouching was necessary.Afterwards had to have a compleat fret job to correct a bad backbow. Now she looks and plays great!

Double Bass Repair

Sorry that I've been a little lazy with the blog these days. Been on a little vacation to my parents home in N.J., and working hard on a couple tough projects. Bass repair almost done, I'll give you a look at the neck block reconstruction. Made the new neck block out of mahogany because I didn't have a piece of spruce big enough. Maby someone trained in Cremona would call this blasfamy, but it works very well on our guitars. The white piece of maple at the bottom is a very large button and top bout reinforcement. Thing really can get torn up when these babys fall over.

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