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Guitar Repair #55 - Soundporting - 2005 Baroque Guitar - Classical

I did the soundporting earlier on my Paulownia, with the same oval size.
2005 Baroque Guitar
Jacaranda (laminated) back/sides. Great sounding student guitar.

Guitar Repair #54 - New Bone Saddle - 2008 Armin Gropp - Romantic Guitar


7/32" - wow high action! Lowered to more managable 5/32".

2008 Armin Gropp
Great volume for its size.

Armin Gropp on the work bench.

Guitar Repair #52 - Setup - Vintage German Parlour Guitar - Parlour Classical

Before
After
Restored
So old, so beautiful. 80 and counting
Here's what's client is concern about.
Upon removal of bridge, I realised the steel saddle is actually a fret. The breaking angle is not a lot, which may explain why it's not a loud instrument. (at least not responsive)
Ball ends!!!
They looked like for steel strings...the basses
The typical tipping forward of a bridge in trouble.

Here's the "fretwire" saddle

The 3 ebony dowels
The 3 ebony dowels inside. Dowels worked well on butt joints. Seem like a bad idea on a guitar bridge, as would screws!



Creating a saddle slot. The back line is original slot that received the "fretwire" saddle.
Here's the saddle blank
Carved and polished compensated bone saddle.
After
Before
After
Inside - 80 years of chalked up dirt vacuum cleaned!
Healthy low action of 4/32" at the 6th string above 12th fret.
Zero fret
Lovely vintage looking tuners


Elaborate purflings and ivoroid bindings
Brazilian?
The purflings
The tail deco
Close-ups of the rosette



i finish my saturday's teaching off tanglin park. not knowin where best to go, to unwind, i headed aimlessly and ended up having my first meal of the day, at 3pm, at seah im market, $3 worth of fried hokkien mee. it sucked, but i ate everything anyway. after my teh tarik, i headed to vivo, to look at dvd writers, but din buy any. look over in pageone one but making money books din impress me now (knowing that having money is not THAT important anymore, since grandma's passing illustrates a legacy to be left behind is more important).

i din want to go home, as it's only 4pm, so i headed to pearl's hill for free parking and cheaper $5 tiger beer. had one and drove off, after visiting the used furniture store at pearl's hill. the babe is cool but not so the goods.

i still figure where to go next for some new ideas for my guitar business and makin full use of my 2 dotcoms - ngohguitars and pimach.

i had a sentimental idea - queenstown lib!

now, i am here. it looked not like the one i visit every week or so. the high ceiling on the 2nd is gone, it's all to prim and proper, but the smell of the place still reminds me of my childhood days - longing for the peace that made me happy. period.

now, i'm writing with my laptop, no more with pencils and scraps of loose paper. i can blog at my site and be archived than clip on the some books which i would never read anyway.

this library remains to be really silent. i like the peace that i get here, the peace that led me here.

may this day be a milestone, in Jesus' name!

Guitar Repair #51 - Bridge Reglue /Bridge Repair - Jose Antonio AC74CB - Contrabass


Jose Antonio AC74CB
Second Contrabass bridge reglue

Looks secure, but it came loose anyway

Bolts inside

Lifted bridge

The top is slight deformed, no thanks to the screws.



Not the first reglue, but my first bridge removal.
How - with a 200W bulb!

Had to heat the top a little and clamp with acrylic overnight to flatten before bridge comes on it.

Before gluing, I had filled the screw holes with epoxy.

By the way, bought the 7" soundhole clamp from Stewmac just to glue the contrabass bridges!

Done