Guitar repair...

Hi all.

Thought you might like to see a guitar repair I was recently asked to do.

This was a child's (half-size) classical guitar that had been knocked over onto a hard floor.

The head had snapped off along the grain so a repair was pretty straighforward..  It is typical of cheaper instruments that the grain doesn;t run true in the neck - all the intruments that I build use quater-sawn or rift-sawn baords for the neck with the grain running along the neck for both stability and strength.

A large chunk of the original veneer was missing so I decided to strip off the remaining veneer and fit a new mahogany head-facing.

Sanded, sealed, polished with micromesh and finished with 3 coats of tru-oil.

The owner had lost the original ut (the bit that holds the strings in place) so I made a new nut and set the string heights correctly, then returned it to its owner..

Edited By Paul Bodiam on 06/12/2016 15:01:09

Edited By Paul Bodiam on 06/12/2016 14:56:05

The job a good one Paul. A master at work sir

Wow, thanks. My wife has broken her guitar in a similar way and I've been wanting to fix it, but never been sure how. Thanks for the tips!