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The Guitar Topic
ledhendrix:
My dads done quite a bit of work restoring old acoustic guitars. The graphite strengthening rod works pretty well in them. Although as Chad said it does require a lot of work and might not be worth it unless it's a really nice guitar.
Patrick:
The sound of the thing is great, if that's what you mean by a nice guitar. I just wanna make her playable. I have a choice of saving up for a lower-budget Taylor (I've seen new ones go for 6, and I LOVED the way they played) or Takamine or something, or I could make an amazing player's guitar out of this old strumbox. Now, for specifics that you mentioned:
--- Quote from: Chad K. on 31 Mar 2009, 14:37 ---Warped neck, huh? That sucks. I had that happen on my 50's Kay and I ended up just trading it in to a luthier. It can be fixed, but it involves removing the fret board, the truss rod (if your Kay is of the later variety that had one) and occassionally the neck itself. Then the luthier does something involving steam and heavy clamping, followed by some planing. Then, they fill the truss rod channel, re-channel it, and reattach the truss rod and fretboard.
--- End quote ---
She does indeed have a truss rod. And removing the neck isn't a problem at all, it's got a bolt-on neck. I'll definitely mention the strengthening rod when I take her in.
I'm pretty sure the neck twisting was just decades of neglect. She was a case baby, so you would probably see more scratches on a diamond. But apparently when my dad got her in the mail (eBay, Christmas present for me about 2 years ago) she was tuned almost completely to pitch.
One thing I will definitely ask is whether planing is absolutely necessary. I don't want to do anything that isn't instrumental in getting the sucker to play well (pardon the 'instrumental' pun, I really couldn't think of another word).
imapiratearg:
Oh shit, you guys. The Tiny Terror has a rival now.
negative creep:
It looks nice, that's for sure.
imapiratearg:
It sounded pretty sick in the demo.
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