A day or two was spent mounting a point extractor above the workbench. The idea is to suck up the fumes from superglue and the finest dust and send it out through the valve in the wall. The room is small and the fumes from the superglue are not healthy! Worked as well as I had thought. With a pull-off sleeve on…
All bodies have got the bottom and stables glued. From now on, one gets priority at a time and is made clear. When glue or varnish has to dry I work on another of the guitars in the batch.
Between about 1890-1920, very special guitars were manufactured in southern Sweden. Little has been known about the two builders, but their instruments appear a little now and then. Recently bought a "KB" at an auction and researched a bit about these particular guitar makers. All “KB” have extremely ornate stables, even Gerdin had such on…
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I have two bottoms left to glue in the GammelGura batch I am working on. Sticks in between with a regular repair of a Söderman tilt. Söderman is the only old guitar builder I know from the area of Örnsköldsvik, he lived in Västerhus about 1 km outside the city between 1924 (the oldest I have seen) to the middle / end…
