The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂

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estebanana -> The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Aug. 12 2023 7:34:48)
Got a side job for a neighborhood friend who found an old guitar. It’s a Japanese guitar probably made before the war. It’s not very good, but it’s charming. I said I’d fix it to playing condition. I started to check out the situation, the bridge is coming off, and the top binding is loose in the lower bout. Hmm.. Poked it with an awl and a long section of inside top liner fell off, it came unglued from the rib. Now an easy bridge restoration just got complicated. I removed the binding halfway around the top and lifted the top of the rib by cutting the seam open with a violin makers top removal knife. So far doing good. Now to devise some clamps and get the liner glued back on the rib. Many people would have removed the back, too much work. Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

estebanana -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Aug. 12 2023 7:36:18)
The rest of it. I’ll post more as I do it. Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

Stu -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Aug. 12 2023 21:20:38)
aw youre a good guy. that looks painful! and the more you scratch the more you realise there is to sort out. [&:]

Firefrets -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Aug. 13 2023 7:47:54)
She's old. I doubt she was built for modern steel string tension though, so maybe consider throwing a set of Thomastik John Pearce strings on when done. Similar to the old saddleless Ibanez bridges. Ladder bracing?

estebanana -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Aug. 14 2023 9:55:43)
Instead of removing the back. Reglued the loose end of the top brace too. It’s got one diagonal brace. It crosses the top from treble side at the waist to the lower bout side at 45* angle. It’s tall and thick and unsanded. I might take a long chisel and carve it down a bit, it’s intuitively too tall and wide. Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

estebanana -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Aug. 17 2023 18:27:32)
You don’t have to glue it all back together in one go. Sometimes I find it necessary to glue things back together incrementally in order to keep it all lined up. Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

Firefrets -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Aug. 31 2023 10:04:33)
Gluing them back in sections is 100% the best way to go, especially on a guitar that's lost it's shape. I'll spend as long as it takes, trying to read the guitar, often jamming struts inside, squeezing with clamps etc, and make notes, with loads of dry runs. I've done a few in one go, but you really don't need that kind of stress in your life. It's absolutely not a one session job. How have you been getting on with it?

estebanana -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Aug. 31 2023 15:48:06)
Today I glued the rebuilt bridge and binding back on. A few quick decisions to make, but a few more hours and it will be strung up. I didn’t get too fancy rebuilding the bridge as it wasn’t very nice to start with. I did push it back a few mm to correct compensation position and I’ll have to touch up the light colored wood in front of the bridge, but again not a thing I’ll fuss over because it’s a free job and the object is just seeing it through to playing condition. Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

estebanana -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 3 2023 14:56:44)
Restoration completed 👍 I’m waiting overnight with the guitar at string tension to wake up. It’s been maybe 30 years since it’s been up to tension ( or more) I suspect this is a late 1940’s early 50’s guitar. It belongs to a friend who found it in his great aunts old house. The woman lived near and was always very kind. Evidently she was a teacher, I have to inquire about which subject, but I remember her in the neighborhood as a charming person. When she died her dog went to live with her niece, who is now 75. I used to visit the dog several times a week to take her for a walk in the park. The dogs name was Hana, flower. Hana died and the niece s appreciated I took her for walks. Funny a gaijin in the middle of nowhere walking a dog, this prompted kids to follow and be amused by the dog and the foreigner talking to each other in English. Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

Firefrets -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 3 2023 20:38:43)
Looks like an old bridge, nice job. What's she sound like?

estebanana -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 4 2023 5:33:55)
Here you go:

Firefrets -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 4 2023 7:17:18)
She has a good growl to be fair to her.

estebanana -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 4 2023 9:22:47)
I played some Tarrega on it and it sounded like a freaking Torres, but I won’t show myself playing any Tarrega because Ricardo finds Tarrega deeply offensive. 😂

orsonw -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 4 2023 14:20:29)
Thanks for posting and sharing your benevolent and expert restoration skills.

Firefrets -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 4 2023 15:26:46)
I like a bit of Tarrega. I wouldn't have a clue what a Torres sounds like in the flesh, but I think the old Valencian builders, with their rustic approach, probably get close.

estebanana -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 4 2023 15:55:39)
He seems happy with it. Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px

ernandez R -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 4 2023 17:00:08)
!OLÉ! There is a bit of magic taking something old and making it sing again. Often it doesn't make economical sense, waste time etc. But the reward though less tangible is often worth more then the sum of those costs. The smile on this guys face says it's so! HR

Ricardo -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 5 2023 12:17:52)
quote: ORIGINAL: estebanana I played some Tarrega on it and it sounded like a freaking Torres, but I won’t show myself playing any Tarrega because Ricardo finds Tarrega deeply offensive. 😂 Tarrega is offensive only on the orange Condes.

estebanana -> RE: The Firefrets Challenge 😂 😂 (Sep. 5 2023 13:29:01)
quote: ORIGINAL: Ricardo quote: ORIGINAL: estebanana I played some Tarrega on it and it sounded like a freaking Torres, but I won’t show myself playing any Tarrega because Ricardo finds Tarrega deeply offensive. 😂 Tarrega is offensive only on the orange Condes. You would know Sticker Boy!

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