Got with me GG 15 from Östervåla, it had hung in the store for a long time. Most things were perfectly OK, but I replaced the fretboard and the neck was put back and the stable leg was milled again. A few things have happened since last time! Extremely narrow fretboard, only 41 mm at the upper saddle. Will live his life as a local guitar, but always…
A quick demo video where I play one of my songs on 1892 German. Was a silent movie in the beginning, but I do!
Is finished with the two GammelGura (nos. 71 and 72) without buyers as far as I take with me to Stockholm folk festival on the 7th and 8th of August (Friday / Saturday). Will be in CJ Acoustic Music's booth among their fine new mandolins and guitars. Maybe we'll meet there. A bit like a cat among…
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Got a gift from a regular customer, a really cool guitar from the 1930s. Another item for an Old Gura! The guitar is called "Ciklop", the logo in finest mother-of-pearl with a cool sound hole decoration in celluloid. You can complain about the condition, but not the price! Real wood and I think it sounds good when it's done, an easy build. The whole…
Sorted about 80 old mechanics and cleaned them all with my ultrasonic cleaner. There are both mandolin and guitar mechanic in the collection. Everyone has been replaced for a reason and that is that no one is as tight and flawless as a newly purchased mechanic. Partly understood because they are old and worn, but also because they never…
One of the most difficult steps when renovating guitars is to glue the neck. It must be true in both height and sideways and small defects in the attachment can be catastrophic at the stable. There is nothing less productive than gluing a neck wrong, the only thing you can do then is to loosen the neck end (as…
A USA Levin passed the premises, a Goya N-26 in 1967. The big problem was that the neck had twisted at the upper saddle, the most twisted neck I had come across! Maybe not 30 degrees at the top, but not far away. The stable was planed down and ugly glued, the binding in the sound hole had delaminated and the pickguard was only stuck in patches. Some bindings had…
