This one was a little special. In part, the side was veneered with eye maple veneer on the outside of the side and over the scraper for the bottom. For one thing, it had something similar to a "fan frets" with a longer scale for the bass string, but not as it should. The stable was gone and it had been converted to a floating stable with string holders sometime around 1940, the string holder was...

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The next to be finished was the Levin parlor guitar from 1906. The guitar was in good condition, there were hardly any cracks in the lid and bottom. There was also an old fine repair in the form of a cleverly functioning brass plate at the base of the neck. A slightly finer model with pyramid stables in black lacquered birch and a bow decorated with many mother-of-pearl inlays. Botten…

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An unusual yeast and dry European parlor from about 1910-1920 became a finished GammelGura. The condition was not the best, the neck had been hit and the lid cracked and came loose on both sides of the fingerboard and pushed forward into the sound hole. At the same time, the rest of the lid had cracked in wide cracks. With the lid under the fretboard forced and glued…

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