Nice work! The framing on the first photo was beautiful! The guitar looks nice too :bDay 3 -
Some oilbased paint ”rosewood”
Stringing it up and mounted a pickup with the one frame I have that fit. The gibson and epiphone frames are too small.
It plays well. Electronics work perfect. The home made wooden nut isnt very good, and unfortunately very firmly glued in place..
Tomorrow a trip to my friend Per Sonnerup, the luthier, who builds acoustics. He’ll help me with the nut and give me advice on the headstock repair.
You are an unstoppable rebel force and i like it.Solution: A refret.
Little by little, piece by piece..
Now to the next level…
How does it play…
Very well, but not without problems..
GREAT wood resonance and acoustic sound, fantastic low action, good intonation, and the pickups and electronics are good too.
But..
Seems the neck has a little bump in it at the 2:nd fret.
I was pleased when I got it - no neck repair from break at the headstock.
A common thing for gibsons, don’t know about Guilds.
My guess is however that the fretboard also has been loose, maybe at the same time as headstockcover and neckbreak at the body. Just the top 2-3 frets. And that someone has glued it together with a lot of glue and clamped it at the first fret. Leaving this slight bump at the 2 nd fret.
So the 1 st fret buzzes a lot.
Solution: A refret.
No grain filler. Oilbased dye w rosewood reddish, and mahogany brownish pigment.I like the open grain "raw" look of your finish. Was that just due to not using grain filler?
Oh, looks like that original celluloid headstock veneer was sitting in the sun or near a heat source for some time as it shrunk! I would immediately clamp it in between two hardwood boards to get it flat again. Don't put any heat to it as it might only shrink more. Unfortunatelly it separated already from the base layer, so it makes it a bit harder to glue it on the headstock. But still doable for a luthier. The problems of celluloid...So much support..
Here a piece from jp - senior member
When I bought this, the seller's pics didn't truly show how warped it was, although he mentioned it in the ad. There was no way to get a refund, but I kept it at least for the inlays. When I saw this thread, I figured I'd give it to Ppolfeldt in case he wanted to salvage it.Oh, looks like that original celluloid headstock veneer was sitting in the sun or near a heat source for some time as it shrunk! I would immediately clamp it in between two hardwood boards to get it flat again. Don't put any heat to it as it might only shrink more. Unfortunatelly it separated already from the base layer, so it makes it a bit harder to glue it on the headstock. But still doable for a luthier. The problems of celluloid...
Ralf