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Elderly injured fretted-instrument fellow looking for help in finding designs, and plans if possible, for classical guitars with small bodies, along the lines of some dating from the 19th Century. Please relay any thoughts you have on sources, selections to fill this special need. . This request is ...

Looking for help in replacing the top of a classical guitar. It is 22 years old, and its Western Red Cedar top is collapsing. It has developed waves and a deep hollow in front of the bridge-- clear signs that the builder (that would be me) made the top too thin and did not brace it strongly enough. ...

How about using clear shellac as sealer on bare rosewood body and spruce top, to be over coated with nitrocellulose? This would be the real stuff, plain shellac flakes freshly dissolved in alcohol, not denatured, no additives. Have some vinyl sealer on hand but it is old and way past its sell date. ...

No, the neck joint has not failed. (Unfortunately) It is rock solid ... The problem is Builder' Error, plain and simple. This careless fool did not fit the neck at the corrective angle to the heel, so from Day One, the strings have naturally been at the wrong height at fret #12. Trying to force the ...

Thanks for confirming that heat will do the job-- but I am still concerned: How much heat is too much?? I have some ¾" aluminum plate stock that can be cut to fingerboard shape and heated to any desired temperature. That would make a great heat source. If it lifts the frets, no problem? I can p...

Suggestions welcome on removing a bound, ebony fingerboard from a mahogany neck on a six-string acoustic guitar, without destroying the fingerboard. This is a blue guitar I built for a friend, and it needs a change in neck angle. Cannot correct with the adjustable truss rod. Neck is mortice-and-teno...

Charlie, I believe Cumpiano and Natelson could easily get their book into digital form? I just had this done on a book-length typewritten manuscript. It can be done relatively inexpensively and, once done, the book can be edited/rewritten/manipulated as easily as any computer-generated document.

Seeking info to repair finish on an Ovation with a cracked top. Am told Ovation uses cataylzed polyester finish on its tops. May be able to just glue the crack. May have to fit a spline. Don't know yet. But after it is fixed, what would you recommend for touchup/refinish of the top? (And yes, us new...