WWII period child acoustic repair
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:22 am
this guitar is special to me. it's the oldest guitar I own (which i had no idea how old it was until recently) , and has never been playable since I've had it. about 10 years ago this belonged to a friend of my grandmother's, and she gave it to her. so then my grandmother gave it to me. it had a ton of shrinkage and the back was coming unglued, but I kept it anyway. even then I began to clean her up and my father laughed at me and said
"just throw that thing in the trash"
but I didn't listen to him. but being frustrated with it, I just decided to keep it inside my spare classical guitar case. when I moved into my currant home I throw it up in the attic where I figured it would eventually fall apart and I'll throw it away.
fast forward 10 years to present time and I head up to the attic to change out my air filters and I remembered this old guitar, barely. I figured it was time to throw this thing away, but I brought in down from the attic dusted off the case and opened it up. and I thought wow, this guitar really isn't in that bad of shape.
So I took it into my shop and began fixing her up. the worst part was the tail in inside block support was in bad need to be reglued. so I then carefully removed the back and began glueing her up. but what really amazing me was the stamp I found inside....
"just throw that thing in the trash"
but I didn't listen to him. but being frustrated with it, I just decided to keep it inside my spare classical guitar case. when I moved into my currant home I throw it up in the attic where I figured it would eventually fall apart and I'll throw it away.
fast forward 10 years to present time and I head up to the attic to change out my air filters and I remembered this old guitar, barely. I figured it was time to throw this thing away, but I brought in down from the attic dusted off the case and opened it up. and I thought wow, this guitar really isn't in that bad of shape.
So I took it into my shop and began fixing her up. the worst part was the tail in inside block support was in bad need to be reglued. so I then carefully removed the back and began glueing her up. but what really amazing me was the stamp I found inside....
Hope you succeed 
