Ongoing batch GG146-GG153

The first guitar in the batch is ready. All other GGs in the ongoing batch have had a carbon fiber rod in the neck, lid and bottom thinned, been repaired and got new ribs (not yet finally shaped) in the lid and bottom. In this mode, I take one at a time and make it completely ready. Fretboard and stable are manufactured or fixed, any K&K mic is mounted, bottom and neck are glued in place, any new mechanics are mounted, the fretboard is strapped on, the guitar is measured for upper saddle tuning and upper saddle, stable legs are mounted and adjusted. A lap or two of lacquer is applied and the guitar is vibrated in and finally the fingerboard gets side spots and a label and a guitar strap knob on the neck.

New in this batch is an extra lid reinforcement in the form of a 1 mm thick spruce plate between the two ribs below the sound hole. There is a risk that the lid gives in and drops off the string in front of the stable. Have put such a plate before on thin lids and have not heard that the tone deteriorates, the first finished guitar with the new amplification sounds good it too!

Some pictures of the situation.

GG146 Levin tenor 94282 1935, Kenneth S

A very special tenor guitar with the stall extremely high up on the lid and floating stall. The stable is located approximately at the first cross bar below the sound hole. Establish that a rib similar to Taylor's V-frame should work well 🙂 The ribs will be thinned out considerably, there will not be much force from the four strings.

GG147 Parlor 22461 1913, Kenneth S

One of many Levin in the batch, all have a clue for thick material in both the lid and the bottom, Levin wanted it to last. All Levin (except the tenor) also has a neck attachment without a dove tail, a plate in harder birch has been glued into the bottom of the neck pocket to stabilize the neck. The bottom was clumsy repainted in black, so there will be a new varnish on it. The bottom got a center strip in rosewood as it had shrunk more than can be corrected by bending the side into the waist.

GG148 No. 26, Hans K

This is the next one that should be finished in the batch, has been able to shape the ribs on it. There's a lot to say about this. Did not appear before I dismantled it, but it has received a hefty and imaginative conversion in the past. Grotesically thick ribs had been glued into the lid and bottom 🙂 The bottom had been given a curvature that I had never seen before on a small parlor, but the positive is that the bottom has now got its shape and the new ribs will keep the shape without any problems. The end bud was also pretty amazing, a hollow brass shape / large diameter button filled with something similar to plastic padding was glued on top. Nice to get rid of it! Should be fun to listen to how it sounds with its curved bottom.

GG149 Klangola 180043 1946

A GG that does not yet have a buyer, but is important for Calle in Östervåla where it will be sold to a hunched speculator. Larger than an ordinary Levin parlor with beautiful flamed birch at the bottom and side.

GG150 Levin 5627 1906, Fredrik B

The most unusual Levin parlor guitar in the batch. Beautiful inserts in the lid and finest flamed birch in the bottom and side.

GG151 Supertone 1929, David G

My American customer submitted a Supertone with "aerobridge", often called "Charles Lindbergh stall" for GG conversion. Koa wood at the bottom and side. Needed extra much glued and patching!

GG152 European parlor ca 1910

A GG that does not yet have a buyer, but is important for Östman's Music in eagle shield bay where it will be sold to a carved speculator. An early renovation of me that gets a new and better renovation!

GG153 Levin 95541 1935

An unusual Levin model with an oval sound hole. The sound hole was extremely small and has been enlarged. An exchange for a Coles parlor from the USA.

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