New batch

Have been working for two weeks with the new batch of 10 Old Gura. One week to take apart and one week to glue cracks, some pictures of the originals and the situation after the spraying. Got over some ribs when I was done!


Old Gura 61

A fine Martin style parlor with the finest rosewood. There was no grip board when it was purchased. Beautiful quality build, original tuning screws may be reusable. About 1910-1920.

  

The fine bonding on the bottom made it a little difficult to get the bottom loose, but it went well. Glued the binding and the middle joint at the bottom and a crack in the lid.

 

Length: 93 cm
Lock: 21 - 17,7 - 29,3 cm
Side: 7,6 - 8,2 - 8,6 cm
Mensur: -
Bottom thickness: 2,7 mm
Thickness top: 3 mm
Thickness of the side: 1,7 mm
Upper saddle / 12th belt: 47/56 mm


Old Gura 60

Got it in pieces without bottom ribs with the question; "Can this be playable?". Of course it can! About 1910.

 

The job was basically done, only the stable needed to be unloaded 🙂 The lid was loose from the side on almost the whole of one side. Glued and added an extra sling.

Length: 93 cm
Lock: 23,5 - 17,5 -? cm
Side: 7 - 8 - 7,8 cm
Mens watch: 62 cm
Bottom thickness: 3,5 mm thin to about 2,7 mm
Thickness top: 3 mm
Thickness of the side: 1,75 mm
Upper saddle / 12th belt: 43/55 mm


Old Gura 56

A Levin 1950 234565 model 15. One of the nicest brushes I have seen on a 1 year warranty guitar.

 

The modern glue was hard, but everything came loose anyway. The lacquer is a foamy mixture of cellulose lacquer and shellac, possibly oil lacquer. Quite sensitive to water. Loosened the daughters in the plastic fingerboard before I warmed up the fingerboard. The label is difficult to loosen in one piece, steamed and used a razor blade. The thick maple clamp to the bottom was thinned.

 

Length: 97 cm
Lid: 26,5 - 21 - 25,5 cm
Side: 9,5 - 10 - 9,5 cm
Height: 62,7 cm
Bottom thickness: 3,8 mm thin to about 2,6 mm
Thickness top: 3,4 mm
Thickness of the side: 2,3 mm
Upper saddle / 12th belt: 45/56 mm


Old Gura 57

An odd parlor with f-holes! About 1920.

 

Was supposed to be converted to a Terz guitar, but I discovered when I measured that it would not work. This one has only 11 straps to the body! Fine measurements of all thicknesses, has glued a center strip in rosewood at the bottom.

 

Length: 89,5 cm
Lid: 23,5 - 17 - 31 cm
Side: 6,7 - 7,8 - 7,9 cm
Mens: 60 cm
Bottom thickness: 2,5 mm
Lid thickness: 2,8 mm
Thickness of the side: 2 mm
Upper saddle / 12th belt: 43/56 mm


Old Gura 58

A Swedish Gerdin harp guitar from about 1900. Cool steampunk wooden case also. Beautiful building that will get x-ribbing to hold for all the strings.

   

The lid was bent around the stable, the fingerboard in fine ebony. All straps tilt higher up on the base side, which means that a straight stable leg intones well! The monster stable in black-painted maple had four (unnecessary) screws. The bar inside the guitar becomes a good spare part for the bar on the neck. Minimal with ribs inside, only 3 each in the lid and bottom.

 

Length: 114 cm
Lid: 26,8 - 22,2-38 cm
Side: 9 - 9,5 - 9,5 cm
Mens: 62 cm
Thickness bottom: 3 mm
Lid thickness: 3 mm
Side thickness: 1,9 mm
Upper saddle / 12th belt: 46/58 mm


Old Gura 59

This one is incomparable, if it is to be bling, you should not save on it - so they reasoned. An East German guitar in VERY bad condition from the 50's, possibly the early 60's. The happy days of celluloid. Feels like this one will stay in the room longer than the others. Have a close relative myself.

      

Almost in pieces when I got it. The neck is adjustable with a Stauffer screw in the neck foot and neck pad! It is a giant with clay feet, lids, bottom, side and sling are very thin. Very thick ribs and a rib between the neck and the end block did not help. most of them have burst everywhere. I spattered a ugly laminate plate on a third of the lid under the stable. Have glued for a week but there is still much to glue 😉 Will be milling through the grip board to mount the carbon fiber rod in the soft neck. Rather than sabotaging the fine pink flake on the neck at the edge of the grip board. Has a cardboard box where I tape all loose moldings and decorations I picked loose.

 

Length: 103 cm
Lock: 31 - 27 - 41 cm
Side: 8,5 - 9,5 - 9,5 cm
Mens: 65 cm
Thickness bottom: 2,5 mm
Lid thickness: 3 mm
Side thickness: 1,7 mm
Upper saddle / 12th belt: 44/56 mm


Old Gura 55

A large-grown Swedish-made parlor, circa 1900-1910.

  

When I loosened the neck, I saw that it had exactly the same construction as the Gerdin harp guitar. A comparison shows that other construction details are also very similar to the harp guitar in the batch, I can most likely say that this is also a Gerdin guitar!

 

Length: 94,5 cm
Lock: 24,5 - 20 - 34 cm
Side: 7,5 - 8 - 8 cm
Mens: 62,3 cm
Thickness bottom: 3,5 barrel to 2,9 mm
Lid thickness: 3,2 mm
Side thickness: 1,5 mm
Upper saddle / 12th belt: 46/54 mm


Old Gura 64

A tailpiece Levin from 1936 of better kind. Finer wood, binding and wide frame. Should get a stable.

Has glued a rosewood strip between the bottom halves of the shrunk bottom and thinned the thickness of both the lid and the bottom.

 


Old Gura 65

Another one in the collection. This one is going to Östervåla and is intended as a blues / slide guitar that should retain its tailpiece. A slightly finer brown model from 1934.

 

Built as a tank with 3,5-4 mm thick lid and bottom. As usual with some finer Levin from the 30s with rosewood board, the glue in the grip board was tough and hard and barely reacted to heat and water. Got a headache in the right thumb grip!

 

Length: 93 cm
Lid: 22,5 - 17,5-30,5 cm
Side: 8 - 8,8 - 8 cm
Mens: 63 cm
Thickness bottom: 3,8 barrel to 2,8 mm
Thickness of lid: 3,7 mm thinned to 3 mm
Side thickness: 2,3 mm
Upper saddle / 12th belt: 45/57 mm


Old Gura 66

Added an extra designed for CJ Acoustic in Östervåla. After all, the two that were intended for the store disappeared unexpectedly at the show of the last batch. GG 65 and 66 will definitely go to Östervåla, they are without buyers so far but can be reserved in the store ;)

A slightly larger phrase from around 1930. Unusual enough with a well-known manufacturer "Herwiga". The company was founded by Wilhelm Herwig in Markneukirchen in 1890 and was bought by Musima in 1972. Spirely lacquered and unusual with beautiful walnut (rosewood?) On the side and bottom. Nice construction with curved bottom and just the right dimensions for the materials. It will be exciting to hear it! Someone started a renovation but did not finish it. The stable in fine ebony did not appear in the pictures. The red spirit varnish on the lid must be recreated. I call it "Old Bettan"!

   

Almost completely without cracks and problems, nice dimensions of the materials!

 

Length: 96 cm
Lid: 28 - 21,5-35,8 cm
Side: 7 - 8 - 7,5 cm
Mens: 63 cm
Bottom thickness: 2,9 mm
Lid thickness: 2,7 mm
Side thickness: 1,6 mm
Upper saddle / 12th belt: 47/56 mm

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