Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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This vintage Martin was picked up this morning after having it's bridge reglued, a couple loose back brace ends secured and an overall cleaning. The owner's mother purchased this guitar for her brand new in 1961 for $160! After 55 years together, she is looking to sell it so please feel free to contact me if you are interested.
A vintage Martin classical came in with it's bridge removed. I cleaned up the mating surfaces, made a few custom clamping cauls (one internal, three external) and reglued the bridge with hot hide glue.
Low action and loose frets plagued this nylon string with all kinds of buzzes. The loose fret ends were mainly along the treble side of the fingerboard. Many frets could be tapped down while one needed to be clamped and glued. The saddle was shimmed up along with a truss rod adjustment (on a classical?!). Tightening the the output jack finished up the setup.
1969 Guild Mark III classical :: bridge reglue, new bone saddle & tuners remounted.
This guitar came into the shop with the bridge fully removed and severe top damage in front of the bass-side wing. I’m not sure if it was caused by an amateur bridge removal or the possibility of having steel strings at some point in its life. Maybe it was left in a hot car and the glue softened enough to fail catastrophically? Anyways, I refit and glued the bridge (look at that Brazilian rosewood!) with hide glue and made a new bone saddle. The top damaged was sealed with shellac. The tuners were missing most of the mounting screws and the few remaining ones were stripped out. I plugged and redrilled the screw holes and used new screws to secure the tuners.
Classical guitar back repair :: gluing up the last loose back brace (5 of 5)
Next up is gluing the severe crack that runs the length of the body. Brazilian rosewood cleats will be glued in cross-grained to support the crack in between the braces.
![1961 Martin OO-18G [3.2 lbs] :: clean up & bridge reglue](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1467812917983-LTC5LIWG0YESM8VHRJPJ/20160706_1961_Martin_OO-18G_bridge_glued.jpg)
![Shim saddle :: Ibanez GA6CE-AM [4.5 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1459897513608-0AO9YB17U4L34MM6TJ8Q/20160405_Ibanez_GA6CE-AM_body.jpg)
