Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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2001 Taylor 310 :: bridge re-glue
Early pre-dawn bridge re-glue on a Taylor 310 dreadnought. I'm loving the moldable plastic pellets (InstaMorph) I picked up weeks ago for making custom clamping cauls. The cauls are shown above on the outer wings, backed with plywood for rigidity and to keep the clamps from slipping.
Classical neck reset :: Late '60s Guild Mark III
Here I'm steaming apart a Guild classical to reset the neck for more pitch over the bridge. Normally you don't easily reset a traditionally built classical guitar as the neck and the neckblock are one continuous piece. Luckily this Guild neck joint has a steel-string style dovetail that comes apart quite easily once you score the finish around the joint. Note that Guilds have the finish applied after the neck is joined to the body so you need to cut through the finish in order to cleanly separate the two. Touching up the finish is usually required.
The bridge needed to be removed as seen here.
2014 Martin Custom X Series D :: high pressure laminate explosion
This X series Martin Dreadnought has high pressure laminate (HPL, Formica, etc) back and sides. The guitar slipped off of a strap and fell onto a hardwood floor. The back broke loose from the treble side (neck-to-tail block) through the linings. The first back brace was also split on the bass side. Here everything is being glued back together with a combination of spool clamps, cam clamps, scissor jack and brace jack. Luckily this was not solid mahogany, else the damage would have been much worse.
Builds, repairs and finish work to get caught up on in the last few remaining weeks of the year. 2014 ... where did you go?
Headplates :: Chubbuck Guitars next five builds.
Finishing up binding and laminating headplates for the next five Chubbuck builds. Kalliope 001 and Rogue 005 bodies on the bench are both sanded and awaiting rough neck fits.
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*Note Rogue 005 is not spoken for yet. Please contact me if interested for more info.
