Kip6905

I've acquired several guitars through the years in various stages of disrepair; face/back side separation, to neck warpage, to sculpted backs and filleted faces and missing pieces of marquetry. Always challenged regarding "best" way to mend (or, in a few bold situations, continuing to make amends) while trying to at least "do no harm" to what could either be a collector's piece, or a "beach guitar." I'm far from being able to listen to a stringed instrument then being able to remove mass from the inside face to change the quality of an instrument's sound, as a luthier might, but the fun of it all is in the trying.

I've acquired several guitars through the years in various stages of disrepair; face/back side separation, to neck warpage, to sculpted backs and filleted faces and missing pieces of marquetry. Always challenged regarding "best" way to mend (or, in a few bold situations, continuing to make amends) while trying to at least "do no harm" to what could either be a collector's piece, or a "beach guitar." I'm far from being able to listen to a stringed instrument then being able to remove mass from the inside face to change the quality of an instrument's sound, as a luthier might, but the fun of it all is in the trying.