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Another little project for me. Found this out for curb side cleanup while I was out walking this afternoon. Looks like it’s barely been played, but it’s clearly been sitting in a garage or something for a while. It’s a 3/4 scale guitar. I’ll clean it up and then I’ll probably sell it on eBay or give it away.
Nice save man
What a score!
Good stuff!!!
I had a similar a couple of weeks ago. Classical acoustic, reattached the bridge, clean, lubricate the tuners and $12 for new strings.
Was going to leave with my music teacher to give to a student or such, but my son dropped in and by chance said his youngest wanted a starter guitar, all sorted :)
Plugged it in today. Works fine. The neck itself is straight, and has a nice satin finish. Can find out what type of wood the body is. It’s pretty light (but it is quite small).
I removed the rusted up tuners and dug around through all my left over kit tuners and found 6 that are the right orientation and are decent enough. I’ll have to drill the holes out to 10mm, but that’s not an issue. A new bridge will probably be the only thing I need to buy for it.
But is that glue in the neck route? And check out the drunken neck screws! I really need to sand out the glue, or whatever that is. The neck relief angle is a bit off.
Gotta love a free guitar. Never seen one like that either...
Years ago I was doing road works one Monday morning behind a live venue and found a smashed les Paul copy in the bin! It was Complete, the neck and headstock had been broken off presumably in a Hendrix moment at the end of the gig. Glued it all together and gave it to a friend as his first guitar, loved it!
The spec for the guitar says the body is made from Basswood.
If the glue in the neck pocket fills in cavities and makes the pocket flat, I'd probably leave it as it is. There's paint that's obviously filling some pits in it, so unless the glue is making things uneven, I'd just let it be.
My gut tells me that too, but the alternative is shim the other end of the neck to lower the action, but then I think the bridge may end up being too high for the bridge. I’ve purchased a new bridge for it, so when it arrives I’ll re-check what the action looks like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
And I’m unconvinced it’s basswood. The colour looks wrong in the little bit of exposed wood there is, and I think a basswood body would be heavier, even with the smaller body size. From the look inside the cavities it’s not plywood, which is something.
New bridge arrived.
The thick layer of black paint on the headstock didn’t like me drilling out the tuner holes to 10mm.
Not quite sure what I’m going to do about it. I promised myself I wouldn’t spend anymore money on it than I absolutely needed to.
That's a shame. I'd sand the headstock down to remove the paint and if there were still visible gouges, stick on a piece of veneer then paint that black. No need to go overboard, you can probably just put a few coats of paint on, sand that down and buff it up when cured without bothering with clear gloss.
Alternatively, you could try colouring the chips in with a black sharpie or paint, filling the chips with superglue until slightly proud of the headstock then sand the dry superglue back to level then polish it up. But it's probably less overall hassle to add some veneer.
Good idea Simon. Black nail polish would also work and if applied several times will increase thickness to help acting as a filler.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simon Barden
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Lowered the action at the nut, leveled and polished the frets. Now it plays like a dream. Intonating the beast with the help of Irish whisky (care of my Dad). I may have to find a shorter bolt for the low E string as the I need to take it further back but the bolt is touching the string.
Just nip the bolt off with an angle grinder with a 1mm disk or a Drexel with an even finer disk
Up and running. Set up and playing real well. I have it tuned up to F# at the moment. I’ll give it away if I can find a 7-8 year old who really wants to play guitar. I wouldn’t charge anyone for something I found and then messed up the headstock.
Good save Fretworn! I reckon there's good karma in rescuing instruments and passing them on. (I've yet been given the opportunity to do it, but I know it will happen one day)
Regarding your earlier dilemma with the tuner holes, I use a good quality tapered reamer for that job. It takes longer, but will not hog out the finish like a drill bit will. You just need to do it from both sides of the headstock a little at a time. (because of the taper)
The extra time it takes with a reamer is surely *way* less than what you'd spend repairing the finish.
Just thought I'd chuck that out there. Good work & good on ya!
Finally found a use for this guitar. At the monthly jam I go to we are doing a Samantha Fish tune that she plays on a 4 string cigar box guitar tuned to a G power chord. So this baby is now tuned like a guitar tuned in open D but capoed at the 5th fret.
A very fitting slot for this guitar Fretty. I like the oil can guitars she plays