repair

Repairs to 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  It was originally made in Germany, possibly with fairly traditonal glues.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...

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