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constructordeguitarras -> Return of a ghost from the past (Nov. 8 2026 3:05:41)
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Sometimes people contact me for repair work and I often do it. Sometimes it makes me uncomfortable when they bring me a guitar that has been poorly cared for or one that is just crummy. Yesterday someone brought a guitar that I made in 2009. I had given it away because I wasn’t totally happy with it. It has a four-piece hard maple back of wood that I resawed myself. The main reason for my dissatisfaction with it is that it is heavy. A flamenca “blanca.”
The guitar has changed hands several times. I gave it to a Pakistani niece of a woman I was friends with after meeting the woman on Facebook and dating her once. On the date I discovered that she is a serious alcoholic. Last I heard of her, she had burned down the apartment that the two women lived in. The guy who brought it mentioned the previous two owners, neither of whom was one of the women.
The guitar came to me yesterday with two holes in the back that shouldn’t be there, black dirt all over it, and what appeared to be the original strings, or parts of them. No one had gotten a case for it and he brought it wrapped in a blanket, in the rain. It has a brushed-on varnish finish and I used an acetone-soaked rag to remove the dirt. I fixed the holes and am touching up the area with French polish.
The guy who brought it is not a guitar player! He plans to sell it. I don’t know what he hopes to get for it. I think it will sound good and play well, but I don’t consider it up to my present standards. I hope he doesn’t convince someone that it is. When he first emailed me, he said it is one of my Grand Flamenco Concert Guitars, or something like that. I don’t know where he got that idea. I wish I had not put a label in it.
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