In recent weeks, I have worked hard, but mostly with minor repairs that have come in locally or those that have been piled up. Still has some of these to handle, but works in parallel with several GammelGura as well. Sometimes they get ready 🙂 This copy was a very typical import guitar from Europe and about 1920. I…
Missing a word that describes what I do with an old guitar. Just got to know that there is one when it comes to old cars; "Restomod". In definition: “Restomod (restoration + modern parts / technology) draws from all the amazing advancements in automobile technology over the past 40+ years to enhance performance, comfort and safety…
An old European guitar from around 1910 was to be prepared for slide play. Atmosphere an open D (DADF # AD) with thicker strings on the thick “E” string and the two thinnest. Used the strings from a 0.13 Newtone Heritage set mixed with strings from a 0.12 set. You could say it was a…
Have seen such big Levin before but avoided them as I could not handle the stable aesthetically (or the curved head). This is an early guitar from 1942. It was used extensively in religious contexts and people had not been afraid of it, the sides had many and long repaired cracks. Part of the lid had…
This was a different renovation. Partly due to the fact that the guitar was manufactured in the 1930s in the city of Sisak in Croatia. That I know it is a coincidence, 80% of the label was gone but on a small chip I could read "Sisak" in small letters. The "Vardian" that was in large letters on the label did not give much,…
