Keith Somerville Imperial Guitars
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Keith Somerville Imperial Guitars
MemberAugust 6, 2024 at 9:11 am in reply to: Crusty old Gibson L7I guess the other problem (they are stacking up) is that when they had the back off, they’ve slightly botched the neck angle. They’ve sort of done of the opposite of slipping the block.
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Keith Somerville Imperial Guitars
MemberAugust 6, 2024 at 4:36 am in reply to: Crusty old Gibson L7 -
Keith Somerville Imperial Guitars
MemberAugust 6, 2024 at 4:35 am in reply to: Crusty old Gibson L74. Ugly seam repair and touch-up
5. A blodge. See also bottom of photo. Weird binding repair. White plastic, black plastic and some brown filler
6. More binding repair. Gluey gunk, general horror.I mean, to me, it’s just the back of the guitar and who gives a shit, but some people care, apparently. How would YOU approach this. He has (some) money and (some) time.
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Keith Somerville Imperial Guitars
MemberDecember 7, 2023 at 7:25 am in reply to: The Pick Guard DilemmaI’ve come here to ask this exact same question.
Got this thing (see photo). I don’t like the idea of gluing to the bare wood again. But then, I don’t really like the idea of lacquering just the bare spot. There needs to be a BIG LOOTH BOOK which says: this is the way you do this, we’ve all agreed, do it like this.
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Keith Somerville Imperial Guitars
MemberAugust 6, 2024 at 8:52 am in reply to: Crusty old Gibson L7Well, potentially £££ but not totally sure I want to get into it. But maybe I do. If he’s willing to chuck thousands at me.
I shoved the endoscope in, and the back lining, neck and heel blocks are SWAMPED in brown glue. I guess someone went in to repair the neck block etc., and everything went terrible after that.
Assuming, I don’t take the back off: how am I going to tackle that binding? He (rightly) has a big issue. But I guess when the back was off last time they fucked up and the sides are flared out a bit so there’s this enormous gap to fill now.