One disadvantage of hot glue is that it does not fill in any gaps. Normally this is good, you are forced to have a good fit, the glue sticks best when the two pieces of wood are in contact with each other. There is a recurring problem; when gluing the bridge back on an old guitar, the lid is always more …
I've been engrossed in learning my home studio and mixing. Now I feel like I've got a good handle on most things. In the meantime, I've been working a little less in the room, but despite that, a lot of regular repairs have been done and only one of the previous batch of GammelGura is left to …
Today I received a large shipment of Newtone strings after various problems with the shipment back home in Sweden. The package had round corners and a lot of address labels on it. What I have at home is: Newtone Heritage, 0.10, 0.11 and o.12. Newtone Masterclass 0.11 and 0.12. Also loose strings for the same set for both Newtone Heritage and Newtone …
I'm about halfway through the new batch. All the necks have had their carbon fiber rod, the bottom and lid have been thinned and the bottom ribs glued. In the picture, all the ribs and plates for the lids have been cut to size and shaped. My collapsible go-bar jig is quickly screwed together for gluing the ribs, the table is part of the jig. The lid in …
A new article has appeared, this was published in the book "Smålands näringsliv i ord och bild" from 1918. See also a previous blog post: Nässjö Musikinstrumentfabrik If you read all the articles you get a pretty good grasp of the complicated history behind the Levin copies that were manufactured around 1920 🙂 Also found some info about "NEW ...
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I've had fun scanning some of the cheap Chinese sites in search of practical gadgets. It always takes a week or two before the packages get home from China, if you want to buy cheap it's much faster and safer with Swedish Amazon, which has many interesting gadgets for a guitar repairman. I'll report...
I have come across several old European parlor guitars with a globe stamp on the bottom. Often you can make out the words “Trade mark” in the stamp. Alternatively the same type of globe stamped on the back of the headstock. I have always wondered who used that logo. Now I found the following text online about a similar guitar with a globe stamp…
It's always good to have a finished GammelGura in the venue, partly to show off to visitors and partly as an instrument for myself to play. They tend to get sold when a customer takes a liking to it. Over the years I've had 3-4 local guitars sold that way. …
The situation is desperate right now, too many GammelGura objects in the queue and also 5-6 slightly larger repairs to be done. There is a stop to ordering for both new GammelGura projects and larger repairs. However, I cannot avoid helping local customers with simpler repairs or installing K&K pickups etc. A lot of time has been spent …
This gauge, intended for measuring tread depth in tires, I will use to measure that the tread groove is deep enough for the tang of the tire. The nice thing is that it has a noonie scale which allows you to measure in tenths of a mm.
