by Barry Daniels » Fri Sep 14, 2018 1:41 pm
Up next on my repair bench is a Gibson J-45 dated from 1975. There are several serious issues with the guitar including:
1) A neck with a very bad twist and the need for a neck reset. The guitar is currently unplayable.
2) A bad case of binding rot.
3) Some previous, questionable and poor modifications to the bridge.
4) The need for some new tuning machines and pickup.
Someone also previously removed the shrunken pickguard and repaired a top crack next to the pickguard, but this needs a bit of additional work. All in all, this is a nice guitar but there is a ton of work to restore it. My goal is to get the neck back into playable condition and to replace the binding without having to do any re-spray on the finish because the finish is otherwise in pretty good condition except for a couple of deep scratches and a case of buckle rash on the back. Also, do you see anything unusual about the bridge? More on that later.
By the way, I started this repair about three weeks ago so I have a bit of catch up to do to bring you'all up to speed. So you will see a flurry of posts here.
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Barry Daniels on Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:33 am, edited 2 times in total.
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