Acoustic Guitar Bares its Teath
- Taffy Evans
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Acoustic Guitar Bares its Teath
Never did like heavy gauge strings!
Interesting repair, but I don't think the customer would like the bill for the job.
Taff
Wow, that's just nasty.
Am I alone in thinking that seeing failures like these can greatly help the Amatuer Luthier? Seeing how these things colapse has gotta give us all a heads-up in what's important, yeah?
When I was heavily into R&D of a new technology in my last job, in my estimation we learned far more by doing post mortems on failures than we did from just building our devices.
Thanks for showing that!
Am I alone in thinking that seeing failures like these can greatly help the Amatuer Luthier? Seeing how these things colapse has gotta give us all a heads-up in what's important, yeah?
When I was heavily into R&D of a new technology in my last job, in my estimation we learned far more by doing post mortems on failures than we did from just building our devices.
Thanks for showing that!
- Taffy Evans
- Blackwood
- Posts: 997
- Joined: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:54 pm
- Location: Charters Towers North Queensland
Done a few of these type repairs, in the end its up the customer......
JJH...That sort of repair would work, but its not my style. The customer may show the guitar to somebody else and say "hey Taffy did this" could be bad for business.
Kiwigeo.......Your right there, I would do the repair but its not worth it on this guitar. I did the same job on a spanish made nylon recently, not a good guitar but the customer loved it so he paid the price quoted.
Paul B.......Your right Paul, the only reason I got sucked into the repair business was to learn about how guitars were constructed and how and why they failed. Doing that for three years before building was invaluable.
But now theres the forum....
JJH...That sort of repair would work, but its not my style. The customer may show the guitar to somebody else and say "hey Taffy did this" could be bad for business.
Kiwigeo.......Your right there, I would do the repair but its not worth it on this guitar. I did the same job on a spanish made nylon recently, not a good guitar but the customer loved it so he paid the price quoted.
Paul B.......Your right Paul, the only reason I got sucked into the repair business was to learn about how guitars were constructed and how and why they failed. Doing that for three years before building was invaluable.
But now theres the forum....
Taff
Well things could be worse. A person who obviously thinks Im a guitar repair guru sent me this beauty.
Check out the neck joint...held together by glue and a couple of wooden dowels.
I plan to actually build a faithful copy and send that back to the owner telling him it was a really tough repair job but I managed to pull it off.
Check out the neck joint...held together by glue and a couple of wooden dowels.
I plan to actually build a faithful copy and send that back to the owner telling him it was a really tough repair job but I managed to pull it off.
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