BarryBobPosthole
12-20-2013, 10:35 AM
No, not the Lutherans. I'm doing some work on my old Takemine guit-fiddle again. Its an old F-400 Martin knockoff 'Lawsuit' guitar that I became owner of in 1976. The headstock is printed with the Takemine logo that looks exactly like a Martin logo from ten feet away and the guitar is almost an exact duplicate of a Martin D-18 all the way down to the bracing, wood, and guts. Only diff I can tell is the top is laminated on the Tak and solid on the Martin.
This is the guitar that my daughter broke the headstock on several years ago and I 'fixed' it. It fell over about two months ago and rebroke in exactly the same spot. I had originally glued it with gorilla glue. This time I reglued it with elmers woodworking glue and it will be stronger than the original wood. Put a straightedge on the fretboard and took a bit of a bow out by turning the truss rod (a first time attempt for me) a skosh and it took it right out. Today, I'll put some new strings on it and adjust the action a bit at the saddle and see what she sounds like. This guitar probably would be pronounce DOA by most folks as it ain't much to look at, but I've got too many hours of playing in it to let her go that easily. I'm hoping when I string it, that it will be playable and have that sweet action that she had when she was still shiny.
I'll post some pictures once I get her all strung up later today.
BKB
This is the guitar that my daughter broke the headstock on several years ago and I 'fixed' it. It fell over about two months ago and rebroke in exactly the same spot. I had originally glued it with gorilla glue. This time I reglued it with elmers woodworking glue and it will be stronger than the original wood. Put a straightedge on the fretboard and took a bit of a bow out by turning the truss rod (a first time attempt for me) a skosh and it took it right out. Today, I'll put some new strings on it and adjust the action a bit at the saddle and see what she sounds like. This guitar probably would be pronounce DOA by most folks as it ain't much to look at, but I've got too many hours of playing in it to let her go that easily. I'm hoping when I string it, that it will be playable and have that sweet action that she had when she was still shiny.
I'll post some pictures once I get her all strung up later today.
BKB