Descriptions of the work process are found with each picture in the gallery below. I also created a short video that demonstrates how I perform restoration work in inaccessible areas inside the guitar, using a camera and magnets.
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Here are the pictures:
- Expanding clamps
- Applying the glue to a crack in the sides
- Rubbing the glue into the crack
- Clamping the crack shut
- Glue cleanup
- Cleaning the Inside for Glueing Cleats
- Making Cleats
- Shaping the Cleats
- Shaping the Cleats
- Making Cleats
- Making Cleats
- Cleat preparation
- Glueing the Cleats
- Glueing the Cleats
- Glueing the Cleats
- Glueing Another Crack in the Sides
- Using an Endoscope
- Using an Endoscope
- A Look at the Inside
- Removing the Pick Guard
- Bare Wood Underneath the Pick Guard
- Bare Wood Underneath the Pick Guard II
- Dirt Underneath the Pick Guard
- Underneath the Pick Guard
- Glueing Top Splints
- Fitting a Top Splint
- Placing a Top Splint