WWII period child acoustic repair

[oipunkguy]

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....

[oipunkguy]

pretty amazing to own a guitar that predates pearl harbor I think

[oipunkguy]

[oipunkguy]

after gluing up the bottom brace I began gluing up the side bracing. sorry I didn't think to take pictures from the front of the guitar yet, I'll get them next time I'm in my shop

[Veenture]

Cosmetically not bad at all Aaron. Interesting tuners -3 housed in one compartment like that.
New tuning buttons will be a challenge I reckon Hope you succeed

[Sarah93003]

Very cool project, Aaron. The bracing is interesting in this guitar. It looks like it may have had bracing on the bottom as well. I can't wait to see how this one progresses. By the way, you should change your filters more often than ten years.

[oipunkguy]

i do lol. i just remember the guitar while I was up there. excuse me for trying to make my story sound interesting!