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Joined: Mar. 19 2024
From: Hunan, China
Is this the correct way to fix?
Hi everyone！One of my luthier friends are fixing a Faustino Conde 1975. He made two holes on the top and he told me that he was adjusting the top curvature. I had never seen this way before. Is that correct and not harmful to the guitar?
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From: Iran (living in Germany)
RE: Is this the correct way to fix? (in reply to hxwhf72752003)
Holly crap. That looks kinda brutal. Did that upper part of top seperate from neck block joint, collapsed or something? can you ask him what exactly he is doing? He is continuing cutting from that hole away. Removing part of top? Replacing brace? Lifting it?
Posts: 248
Joined: Mar. 19 2024
From: Hunan, China
RE: Is this the correct way to fix? (in reply to hxwhf72752003)
Wow calm down gentlemen. Here are some pics of my friend’s work. He was removing the top off of a Mario Gropp and a Conde 2a. I think these guitars are all in trashy condition otherwise he will not do such things on these famous guitars. I didn‘t mean to be rude to luthiers here. I am a confuser and want to learn knowledge of guitar.
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Posts: 248
Joined: Mar. 19 2024
From: Hunan, China
RE: Is this the correct way to fix? (in reply to RobF)
This Faustino Conde was in bad condition. The top arched up and the saddle also flied away from the top. My friend told me that the top wood should be removed and adjust the radian. I am so confuse if the top can be installed at the original place
RE: Is this the correct way to fix? (in reply to hxwhf72752003)
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This Faustino Conde was in bad condition. The top arched up and the saddle also flied away from the top. My friend told me that the top wood should be removed and adjust the radian. I am so confuse if the top can be installed at the original place
That’s not how to repair a valuable guitar no matter what’s wrong with it.
That’s straight up malpractice. Absolutely sheit fisted idiocy. Too late now, but this guy should be in a mental hospital.
He probably doesn’t know what the arching on a Faustino should look like and destroyed a piece of history. Whomsoever this person is shouldn’t be working on musical instruments. They are delusional and unqualified in the extreme. This is a major ethics failure.
RE: Is this the correct way to fix? (in reply to hxwhf72752003)
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Wow calm down gentlemen. Here are some pics of my friend’s work. He was removing the top off of a Mario Gropp and a Conde 2a. I think these guitars are all in trashy condition otherwise he will not do such things on these famous guitars. I didn‘t mean to be rude to luthiers here. I am a confuser and want to learn knowledge of guitar.
So far you've only shown us the butcher's shop. Please post some photographs of the finished dish on the dinner table. Even better would be videos of the 'restored' guitars being played.
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