Ongoing batch

Working intensively with ongoing batch. It has grown to 7 GammelGura, all (almost) are now ready for bottom gluing. The guitars have been cracked, the neck has its carbon fiber rod, the holes for tuning screws have been plugged and drilled in for new ones, lids and bottoms have had new ribs glued, plugs glued, replica stalls made and glued. Some special jobs have also been done with original stables and a sound hole has been enlarged. The bottom and lid of the Levin guitars were thinned. One bottom has already been glued and two fretboards have had band notches sawn.

GG142

This one is a bit special with some type of fruit tree at the bottom and side and probably plum wood in the stable. It had a very odd rib in the lid with a longitudinal rib on the bass side past the sound hole. The stable was extremely low, to save the fine carvings at the end of the stable, a thicker piece of plum wood was glued to the middle of the stable. The fretboard in BRW will be reused.

GG143

Accidentally made a mistake on a previous GammelGura, it got steel strings instead of nylon strings… A piano tramp, but luckily it was on one of my objects. The customer liked it as it was, but wanted another one with nylon! So, it got to be this guitar that got to go first in the queue. The first GammelGura'n with nylon strings. Since it should have strings with less tension, the ribs have been made thinner in the lid and the rib below the stable plate is missing.

GG140

A Levin in the larger concert size in poor original condition. Because it is larger, it got X-ribbed. The customer wanted to modify it according to their wishes and it has got larger sound holes and the neck will be made a little narrower and thinner. The ribbon grooves in the original fretboard in BRW were plugged with rosewood knitting needles and sawn. The location was not quite as it should be. The board had large potholes and was thin, especially with the 12 ″ radius that was ordered. Shimmed up the board with a 2 mm thick rosewood shim (in a lighter color) and sanded away the play pits on the original board. The lid had many and large cracks that needed many team patches.

GG138

If the previous Levin had many team tags, this one has more! The lid may not have been really dry when the guitar was built. The lid cracks must have been around 2 mm wide in total, filled in with more spruce. Uses a genuine Levin grip board from the sale when Levin was liquidated to replace the original walnut board.

GG139

The Norwegian-built guitar was tricky. The fretboard was glued in a carved ditch in the lid, filled with more mahogany, also with a large team patch on the inside. The stable was intoned by being glued at an angle with a straight "stable leg" in the form of a band. The string pin holes were too large, they were plugged and re-drilled. The height of the stable was planed down and the stable was painted black. The fretboard must be made of ebony.

GG141

Have an American customer who comes to Sweden once a year. Last time a Bauer was left from the 1890s and to get it done on time I have to work with it in this batch. Thought it was in good condition, but this one has required more jobs than most Old Gura. The problem is that the side is made of 2.5 mm three layers of plywood with BRW on the outside and inside (the bottom is solid BRW). When bending the side you built in a resilient tension and probably the guitar was stored too warm with the result that the side pushed all the joints in the bottom and lid. Someone has then tried to fix the worst gaps with glue similar to Karlsson's Klister. On this I had to glue in new carving for both the lid and the bottom, to top it all, the necklace was loose too! Got to use all the tricks and a jig to first glue the lid to the opposing side that wanted a different shape than the lid. The bottom did not fit well on the side, but it just solved with a 3 mm milling around the bottom for a rosewood bottom molding and three interior moldings. The grip board in the ebony was thin and got a shim in the ebony glued under to make it thicker. The original stall in ebony was fine, but too narrow for an intoned stall leg, made a wider replica.

GG144
One of my own "wrecks". Will be hung up in the eminent local music store Östmans Musik when it is finished. A slightly unusual Martin inspired body shape on a European parlor from around 1910-1920. The bottom should have a wide wooden binding, doubled the kerfing so that the edge of the bottom does not end up on the edge of the original kerfing. The bottom was unusually cautious, the beautiful grain is nice but also grumpy. Some pictures of my "patented" stable plate in spruce with plugs and replica stable as well.

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