Well, it’s been a long strange year, between hiding out on our mountain top and trying to avoid Covid as well as dealing with a loved one’s health issues. Instrument building was put on hold while I finished up work on my shop. Now that I’m beginning to get back to work on instruments, first …
As I’d mentioned before, the Vega that I’m working on had fret slots that were no longer holding the frets in. The frets themselves were also no longer working after having seen some rather strange wear. So, the first job was to narrow the slots, To do that, I use some plastic slips that are …
One of the main reasons I was given this Vega parlor guitar to repair had to do with some earlier repaired cracks in its lower left bout. It’s pretty easy to see the damage and the cosmetic appearance of the repair work it had had sometime earlier in its life. There was a long crack …
