The last few weeks I have worked hard, but mostly with minor repairs that have come in locally or the ones that have accumulated on high. Still have some to handle, but works in parallel with several Old Gura as well. Sometimes they get ready 🙂

This copy was a very typical import guitar from Europe and about 1920. I like these parlor guitars with round shapes and curved bottom, they usually always get good when they are ready. Most of the time they have wood sticks for ribs, but otherwise good thicknesses and dimensions, very grateful to renovate. This one was a little smaller than normal.

Many similar ones have a head with a low angle of refraction and a fingerboard at the height of the top of the head and a sunken upper saddle that only protrudes a few mm. This makes it difficult to give the fretboard a radius, this had to remain flat as the original. Maybe this particular detail is a sign that it is not German but maybe made in France? Hard to say.

Otherwise, it was veined with maple in the neck, bottom, side, grip board and stables. It got a new grip board and a replica stall in rosewood. As always nice alpine fir in the lid. It's a simple model with no extra * bling * except the rosette and decorative moldings around the lid.

Since it was a small guitar, the ribbing got thinner than I usually do. A K&K mic and new tuning screws were installed. It got all the features, oversaddle tinting, segmented stable legs and oversaddle tinting.

Have grabbed the glued neck angle and come to the conclusion that a ruler on top of the straps should not end up on top of the stable as on a large guitar but 1 - 1,5 mm below the stable top so as not to get a too high stable leg. Tests the neck glued with tensioned strings and sees how it behaves as well. Hopefully I will not have to do neck glues again in the future! Takes a little more time, but it's not fun to glue around a neck…

Think it sounds very good even though it is a small guitar!