Not all cracks in acoustic bridges are repairable. Some require a new bridge, no ifs or buts. Sometimes, though, you can get lucky and repair a bridge in situ.
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Read MoreNot all cracks in acoustic bridges are repairable. Some require a new bridge, no ifs or buts. Sometimes, though, you can get lucky and repair a bridge in situ.
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Read MoreJust a quick follow-up from the last post regarding the problems repairing HPL guitars.
Well, it wouldn't be fair not to mention that instruments made with laminated ood can lso have 'mismatched splintering' problems if they break.
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Read MoreThis guitar's see better days. You can see a couple of nasty cracks along the shoulder. They begun at the preamp cutout and because of the tension on that area of bent wood, they easily spread as the centre 'relaxed' while the edges stayed in place, bound to the top and back.
Someone has had a go at repairing this damage already. The previous repairer tried using fibreglass and some mesh tape to secure things. A brace was added near the preamp cutout to reinforce it but that and the fibreglass weren't enough. The arrow shows where that brace has broken. The crack's back.
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