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…
I have been missing a word to describe what I do with an old guitar. Just found out that there is such a thing when it comes to old cars; "rest mode". A definition: "Restomod (restoration + modern parts/technology) draws from all the amazing advancements in automobile technology over the past 40+ years to enhance the performance, comfort and safety...
An old European guitar from about 1910 was to be prepared for slide playing. The tuning is an open D (DADF# AD) with thicker strings on the thick "E" string and the two thinner ones. 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 town 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. "Vardian" which was in big letters on the label didn't give much, ...
