While waiting for K&K mics that were ordered a month ago, I have made some repairs. One of the repairs grew into an almost complete GammelGura, so it got both a number and a label. This is one of the most beautiful instruments that Levin made. The most expensive parlor model in 1933, but still only 1 year old…
I use GTranslate professional for the translation to English. I now have the possibility to correct bad English in future blog posts, and will do that in the future starting with the previous blog post. I will correct most of the pages on the site, but probably not all the old blog posts! The drawback…
My roller polish has stopped after 7 years, I have ordered a new one but it will probably be a while before it shows up. Getting something shipped from the US takes months nowadays. In the meantime, I need to be able to thin down various small details. Preferably flat and perpendicular as with a roller plaster. Details such as the segmented stable leg, thin spruce shims and…
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Here in Sweden there are plenty of old Levin parlor guitars and I have renovated many of them. But rarely as old as 1907. This was a simpler model with the triangular fixed stable and a black-painted maple board without inlays. Provenance is especially fun, in the first email from the customer I received…
The guitar in the waiting room that was selected as the last guitar in the current batch was not as expected. The side and bottom turned out to be in plywood and the neck in oak. Simply not good enough to waste time on and is now scrapped. The customer wanted a guitar with a wide fretboard, I happened to have a similar one…
