Found a tip online that will be tested and probably used by me in the future. The sensors on a K&K mic must be glued with super glue if they are to sound good. The downside is that you should be lucky if you can get everyone loose with a razor blade without destroying one of them if for some reason…
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Got my GammelGura queue in order, took a couple of days to mark instruments and find information about all of them. Going forward, I will keep a better eye on the administration! Under the tab "On GG" most things are correct. Right now there are about 25 GG in the queue and two more who want to order. It is for…
One of the guitars in the waiting room was repaired up to a good beginner instrument. A French parlor from around 1950. A very simple guitar in solid plywood. Neck and fretboard in mahogany. Found some pictures from a catalog, probably a model 3049 in natural color. Thought it was just to string on, but it was not that simple. …
Trying to prepare an OldGura in each batch that does not already have a customer. This one is special, it is a European and probably German parlor guitar that emulates the body shape of an American parlor. I think I know that similar instruments were made in quantity for export to the United States in the late 1800th century and around the turn of the century 1900.…
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As most people know, I use low-tension Newtone Heritage strings on GammelGura guitars. In the beginning I used 0.11 sets, but then switched to 0.12. With NH 0.12 you get thick strings with low tension which also sounds very good. I have long suspected that regular 0.11 strings do not pull much more than NH 0.12…
I always vibrate my finished GammelGura for at least three days with an aquarium pump fastened to the lid. It opens up the guitar and makes it sound better (or rather as it should). Not everyone believes that it works, but I myself know that it does. You can vibrate the guitar in other ways and get…
Tested a segmented stable leg and plug on the nylon-strung GammelGuran. What is an advantage of a segmented bridge on a steel string, better separation, dynamics and softer sound was not a hit at all. With a solid stable leg, the sound became clearer, "closer" and more treble-rich. The plugs that provide stability to the base of the string ball in the peg stall (with a 4 …
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Made a piano pedal before and rebuilt a guitar from the "waiting room" to steel strings when it should have been with nylon strings. Everything worked out and a new object was selected for another attempt. It is a typical European parlor from about 1910 of a slightly larger model. The stable was reglued, there were cracks in the lid...
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If you are a guitar repairman, you can repair guitars. Often get side projects in the form of bandaging, adjustment, etc. Sometimes it is worse than that. This Gibson guitar came with a replaced cover in plywood… not what you want to see! Made a new lid in Swedish spruce (got the lid from Per Marklund) and made my first sound hole…
In addition to working with old guitars, I have a long history of songwriting and singing. In the binder there are probably 200+ songs of varying quality. The band "Roger & The Rockets" where I am a songwriter and singer (and backing guitarist) has released a new record called "Ur askan". Songs in Swedish of different kinds. You can listen to…
