While I was working on the oversaddle intonation, I realized that the first intonation of the fretboard notes against the stable leg (taken note at 3rd and 12th band) is very different from the traditional intonation with open string and taken note at 12th. Realize now that the traditional method only smears the intonation problems that come from the upper saddle and…
Is converting a faux dobro, a "May Bell" made by Slingerland in the USA around 1935. One of my very first renovations made it playable, but instead of a real aluminum cone, they had fitted a piece of spruce lid with a stable in the cut out the hole in the plywood lid under the cover plate. It sounded almost like a…
Visited the room and bought an old parlor, about 1910-1920. It came from Malmö as a payment for a job that the seller did many years ago. Have fixed to several similar and they are a mystery, but I guess they are French and do everything to imitate nice old masterpieces with…
Got in a six-string banjo that needed to be gone through. Lots of scrap metal to clean, but it fixed the ultrasonic wash. It got a carbon fiber rod and new bands. As well as a new old stable and a strip around the resonator when the originals fell off. Had to file a lot on the neck foot to get the geometry right. Really fun to play when…
A week of rock-hard work on the premises resulted in two finished GammelGuror. Got good help from my apprentice Farre (Faruk Ohranovic), we worked well together. This is the second time I have had a visit to the room where I teach what I know about how to renovate an old "wreck" from the inside out. Even for me was…
On my GammelGura there are almost always Newtone strings. Their Heritage series is very good on old guitars as a 0.12 set has the same tension as a regular 0.10 set with the advantage that the strings do not feel too thin. Low tension is always good! Although an GammelGura should be able to be stringed up with…
