Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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side damage
Back crack repairs :: Breedlove AD25/SM
Late night clamp party on the airline damaged Breedlove. The back and sides in this area are connected again, so moving onto this back crack and loose brace. The feeler-gauge-on-a-stick was used to get glue under the brace and clamped with a brace jack inside. The suction cup helped work glue into the crack. Finally plexiglas and clamps to close and hold everything together.
Blown Up Sides :: Breedlove AD25/SM
This family heirloom was damaged on an international flight that crushed the guitar across the lower bout. The sides are broken free from the back through the linings in two places. The back also has multiple loose braces and cracks that will be addressed once the sides are re-secured. Part of the damage can be seen below.
Pulling dents & closing cracks :: 1971 Guild D25M
This side crack was damaged during shipping (shown here). Here is a dent that is being pulled shut with a guitar string, a cleat puller and a mahogany cleat inside the guitar. The spool clamps are closing the remaining crack. Next up will be installing a few more cleats on this crack, then addressing a couple other side cracks.
Shipping damage :: 1971 Guild D25 Brown
A shipping courier damaged this all-mahogany dread with a cracked side. This will need to be stitched back together with cleats and require some finish touch ups. Luckily there are no holes or missing pieces. The bridge is also being re-set as well.
Setting a cleat with a guitar string :: 1969 Guild Mark III
Now that the neck and bridge are reset, I'm moving onto a hairline side crack. Here I'm using an unwound guitar string along with a cleat pulling jig to both align the crack and set a reinforcement cleat inside. Note that the string's ball end is clipped off and retied to avoid the windings as we want to keep the hole through the side as small as possible (0.008" in this case).
Next up will be to touch up the finish around this crack, make a new saddle and install an Anthem LR Baggs pickup.
