On the right track with the new batch. Ribs for all bottoms have been manufactured and glued on site. All bodies have been crack glued and cleaned on old ribs, bottoms and lids have been thinned out. The ribs on the bottom are simple and can be glued with resistance, the lid ribs I will glue in my new Go-bar jig. To get …
Have been a little nervous about presenting these three GammelGura that I did this summer. One was made for polar bear Björn Sohlin who I play with in Roger & the Rockets the few times we have a gig. An American Stromberg -Viosinet from around 1925 entirely in mahogany. The other two were nice and…
Finished the general mending and gluing of the next batch. The necks have also been repaired and given their carbon fiber rod. Lid and bottom have been thinned, two-part bottoms have been given a center stick. The harp guitar got a new 1,5mm thin ebony "fretboard" to replace the 0,6mm veneer that was on it. In addition to these, I make the "Blues jar" and...
Traded in a cool and battered old European parlor guitar. It had all the faults, cracks in the lid and bottom, a varnish that was smeared over with something that is probably shellac, a rough repair in the form of a screwed iron plate at the transition between neck and head and a "fix" on one of the tuning screws that was replaced …
Got tips about this "oil" for fingerboards and saddles on the American Martin forum. In quotation marks as it is neither an oil nor a wax, but a chemical substance found in the fatty surface of people's nose 🙂 That substance is squalene with an 'e', squalane with an 'a' is a refined variant...
Did an advanced repair on a 'new' 1954 Levin. The neck needed to be replaced and was bent. A carbon fiber rod would be fitted. The fingerboard was flat and could just as easily be replaced with a new one in Madagascar rosewood with a 16″ radius with EVO Gold frets. The binding on the fingerboard and all frets were skipped for a clean and sober wooden fingerboard. …
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I still have some GammelGura left in the previous batch, but have started up the next one today after too many local repairs. Two Levin parlors, a slightly larger European parlor and a rather cool harp guitar from the end of the 1800th century. Will try to increase the pace and work in parallel with these while I do the previous batch and some…
