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Update on guitar restoration.

I unglued the bridge, otherwise it would be impossible to reshape the warped top.

Also I already unglued two phony patches it had inside and now I will be erasing the braces.

And I also took a detailed

picture of the double fretboard it received in a previous fix.

This wedges upwards the projection of the strings to the bridge. So it compensates for the sinking of the front of the bridge into the top. It's a fix. Sometimes a waste of a fix. But each repairman has its tricks.

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Sato🇦🇷🍄⚽🙏🐉 11mo ago

All zaps until aunday will go to aid El Bolsón. For fighting the arson fires and rebuilding the shire.

Don't forget there is the giveaway.

And I will try to post value so you people engage in this. Please

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A. T. Mechanicus 11mo ago

I had a 12 string that pulled the saddle pretty badly. Took quite a bit to rework it.

Sato🇦🇷🍄⚽🙏🐉 11mo ago

Those have to be very well built in order to keep the shape for reasonable time because the amount of tension is huge...

Any mismanagement also (like a misplaced case in the sunlight or a hot car) would destroy them

A. T. Mechanicus 11mo ago

Agreed.

It warped during a tour in Europe. I suspect the it got put somewhere it didn't like.

Sato🇦🇷🍄⚽🙏🐉 11mo ago

One sunray and we are in trouble.

I found my guitar with the bridge unglued because at 10am in the morning a pervert sunray entered through a window in an odd degree and sitted for the hour just on the belly of the case where the bridge is.

So a couple of days in that exact spot and when I went to use it, bridge was gone.

And I use hide glue for everything. It's waaay better for sound and lightness so also it is more sensitive to heat than anything else.

A. T. Mechanicus 11mo ago

That's unfortunate, but sounds about right.