Bought some good stuff. Two planers, mini scraper and a reliable moisture meter. The large planer is LARGE, a vintage Stanly no: 6. To be used for planing ribs and leveling the middle joint on lids and bottoms. The blade is newly purchased from Rubanks Verktyg AB and is thicker than the original. The smaller one is a mini razor that you…
For a few years, I have come up with my own solutions and been quick to both spread the word and advertise them. Before I gained enough experience and had time to understand what was happening. A big step on the way was an unusually expensive book called "Classical guitar design" by Guiseppe Cuzzucoli and Mario Garrone. It was…
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Next to the GammelGura batch, I am doing a repair or two on the side. Got a Bo Wretling guitar from 1948 in deplorable condition. The lid was really crashed and the guitar was unplayable. Made in 1947 in Umeå and with the very ugly paddle head that was on the early guitars before he moved to Stockholm in 1949. Took…
The first finished GammelGura'n in the ongoing batch was a Levin parlor from 1923. A vein-painted cheap model with a triangular stable in black-painted maple and walnut board. Early Levin parlor guitars have slender slightly V-shaped necks in elm, probably made for tendon strings. Such necks become banana-shaped if you do not reinforce with a carbon fiber rod with steel strings. Senare parlor…
The first guitar in the batch is ready. All other GGs in the ongoing batch have had a carbon fiber rod in the neck, lid and bottom thinned, been repaired and got new ribs (not yet finally shaped) in the lid and bottom. In this mode, I take one at a time and make it completely ready. Fretboard and stable are manufactured or…
In addition to working with old parlor guitars, there is one more thing I do that should interest more people. Oversaddle tuning on modern acoustic or electric guitars. The intonation means that the guitar is measured, the fingerboard is shortened by about 1 mm at the upper saddle and a new intonated upper saddle in the legs is manufactured. On an acoustic guitar, it can also mean that the stable leg ditch…
