Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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I am always impressed by these import Blueridge dreadnoughts. This is going to be a gift to a customer's son so he wanted me to look it over. I ended up shimming up the saddle, refitting the uneven plastic bridge pins and replaced the missing end pin.
This dreadnought was in for a setup and a punched-in soundhole repair last month.
A dreadnought in for a setup last week for a grandmother's Christmas present to her grandson. The soundhole edge had significant damage near the pickguard. Most of the pieces were there but it wasn't going to result in a pretty repair. A couple custom plexiglass cauls to flatten out the area along with a few clamps and hot hide glue for the fix.
Above is my camera rig for this day's daily video. You can subscribe over at my Youtube channel to follow along.
Soundhole repair from the daily videos.
This pickup hasn't worked in years and the player decided to let me give it a shot. I got lucky on this one. First thing to check on acoustic pickup issues is the power. A fresh battery didn't solve the issue so I started checking connections with a multimeter set to continuity (beeps when a connection is good). The culprit turned out to be the battery box. All of the connections were good, but their wasn't enough pressure to hold the battery leads up against the contacts in the battery tray. I used some foam to take up the slack and push the battery forward in the tray and voila!
After resolving the pickup issue, here's a quick string-up from the vlog:
Bridge re-glue, center seam & sound hole crack :: 1996 Martin HD-28 [4.9 lbs]
A player is taking his Martin along with him for an extended time down to Grenada (island in the Caribbean), so he stopped by for a check-up beforehand. The bridge was coming up so it was removed, cleaned up and re-glued. An existing top crack repair was coming apart so I removed a single cleat, glued up the crack and splinted it (fit a sliver of wood into the crack). Lastly a sound hole crack was reinforced. All ready for the island!
![2004 Blueridge BR-60 [4.2 lbs] :: setup](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1459846993351-V9MCGJFC61XZ9GHC9UZZ/20160401_2004_Blueridge_BR-60_body.jpg)
![Soundhole repairs & new strings :: Blueridge BR-OM [4.4 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1450829428842-493P1I9KTB8J44OSGZ8V/image-asset.jpeg)
![Getting lucky with a dead pickup :: Yamaha FGX-412SC [5.2 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1447221145228-L6VJTN8AOWJDBBGLPYAI/image-asset.jpeg)
![Bridge re-glue, center seam & sound hole crack :: 1996 Martin HD-28 [4.9 lbs]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dfcee2e4b0c0da377c65c7/1443376707683-GQBL3EYJWWWOGSBN7PPK/image-asset.jpeg)