Family Heirloom :: 1965 Guild Mark I [3.0 lbs]

September 8, 2015

An all-mahogany (top too) Hoboken Guild classical in for a checkup. This a player's family heirloom that belonged to his father that unexpectedly passed away recently. He told me that this is the guitar that got him into playing when he was a kid. We opted to not fully clean the guitar, but only adjust the setup and lubricate the tuners. Unfortunately this has a low neck angle that could be reset (like this 1969 Mark III) in order to lower the action.

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100 Year Old Restoration :: Lyon & Healy Bowl Back Mandolin [1.3 lbs]

August 13, 2015

100 Year Old Restoration :: Lyon & Healy Bowl Back Mandolin [1.3 lbs]

Whew! Finally finished up this ~100 year old mandolin restoration a couple weeks ago. Let's see ... neck & fingerboard reglue, missing soundhole pieces, cracked / loose top bracing, loose back ribs, new inlayed pickguard (courtesy of Dave Nichols Custom Pearl Inlay), new bridge and properly spaced new tuners (peghead had to be bunged & redrilled). A lot of hours into this little fella. Excited to drop it off to it's new owner. I went to high school with him in PA and this was his grandmother's mandolin. Always an honor to work on family heirlooms.

Until I gather everything into a single blog post, you can check out the previous progress of this project here.