Washburn New Model 115 X bracing
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:48 pm
“Pam” came into my life quite a few years ago when a local violin maker offered it to me in pieces. It was a project he had planned on taking on but never got around to.
Pam is a small bodied Washburn Parlor guitar with an oval black and white label which dates it to the 1903-07 era.
The details of construction and decoration (Brazilian Rosewod back and sides, spruce top, white celluloid with rope style marquetry on the top, binding on the top and back, three rings around the sound hole and body dimensions) suggest that it might be a 115 Model though there are no model numbers on the guitar.
When I got Pam, her back was off, she had numerous splits in the rosewood back and sides, some quite severe, and several serious cracks in the top. A section of binding was missing from the top as well and it was completely missing the back binding. I splinted the face cracks with new spruce (inlaid spruce into the cracks that were too wide to close). Her original tuners were damaged and she had been over sprayed with some form of clear finish.
Pam had a very basic and somewhat beefy ladder style bracing on the top and the bridge was split.
Pam is a small bodied Washburn Parlor guitar with an oval black and white label which dates it to the 1903-07 era.
The details of construction and decoration (Brazilian Rosewod back and sides, spruce top, white celluloid with rope style marquetry on the top, binding on the top and back, three rings around the sound hole and body dimensions) suggest that it might be a 115 Model though there are no model numbers on the guitar.
When I got Pam, her back was off, she had numerous splits in the rosewood back and sides, some quite severe, and several serious cracks in the top. A section of binding was missing from the top as well and it was completely missing the back binding. I splinted the face cracks with new spruce (inlaid spruce into the cracks that were too wide to close). Her original tuners were damaged and she had been over sprayed with some form of clear finish.
Pam had a very basic and somewhat beefy ladder style bracing on the top and the bridge was split.