Repairs to Classical Bass guitar

Bridge repairs on classical bass guitar.

Like most Luthiers, I do some repair work on occasion.  As a classical guitar specialist, most of my repairs are on nylon string guitars, but occasionally I see steel string or electric guitars.  Here is an unusual guitar that needed some TLC.  It’s the first Classical Bass guitar I have had in the workshop, and it was having some issues with glue stability and strength in our local environment.  It was originally made in Germany, possibly with fairly traditonal glues.  The bridge had come off fairly cleanly thank goodness, and a number of back bars were loose, creating a rather nasty rattling.   No traditional clamps that I used for standard classical guitars would reach the bridge, and nor would the vacuum clamp I used for my own bridges as the length on this bass guitar was quite a bit longer.  I ended up improvising this vacuum press which worked rather well.  I’ll look forward to using the setup again some time.   I was fortunate to be able to just reach the inside bars on the back, which was still no easy feat.  Thankfully I was able to remove the troublesome rattling by re-gluing the bars securely.  This guitar will likely see some concert time at the University of Queensland, with the students of Karin Schaupp, and also student open days held once a month.

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