classical disaster recovered :D

[Kevin Sjostrand]

Yeah John, it looks good.
Boy that top has some really nice silking going on there...it will be a beauty under the finish.
Are you french polishing?

Kevin

[johnnparchem]

Yeah John, it looks good.
Boy that top has some really nice silking going on there...it will be a beauty under the finish.
Are you french polishing?

Kevin

Thanks, I did not notice the silking untill I started sanding the top with 120g against the grain. I did get excited when I saw it show up under the sand paper. I am going to do a true french polish on this guitar. I will fill the back and sides with zpoxy though. One pumice fill was enough for me.

One design issue I am thinking about is to keep the white purfling on the back a clean white or to let the IRW oil stain it to tone it down. I will sit on it for a bit. In any case the shellac with turn it a bit amber.

[Kevin Sjostrand]

John,
I would suggest not getting stain on the purfling, but the shellac over might give it a nice "old" look....could be pretty neat.

Kevin

[johnnparchem]

John,
I would suggest not getting stain on the purfling, but the shellac over might give it a nice "old" look....could be pretty neat.
Kevin

Thanks Kevin,

I will keep the purflings clean, I have been sanding the back and sides and my 5 line purfling is growing on me. At least the work is coming out clean. All and all I think this will turn out as a nice guitar. It is the cleanest that I kept the top - no small dents.

[johnnparchem]

Near disaster. While gluing on the fretboard I did not have the guitar held in place and it flipped right off of the work bench. Luckily the clamps broke the fall and I have not found any real damage except a small chip from the top between the rosette and the sound hole. I cut the edges of the chiped area with a wedge shape and made a matching wedge of a cutoff to glue in place. It looks like it will disappeare.

Anyway the fretboard is glued on and the guitar is ready for sanding, fill and french polish.

[johnnparchem]

Near disaster. While gluing on the fretboard I did not have the guitar held in place and it flipped right off of the work bench. Luckily the clamps broke the fall and I have not found any real damage except a small chip from the top between the rosette and the sound hole. I cut the edges of the chiped area with a wedge shape and made a matching wedge of a cutoff to glue in place.

Not quite a near disaster, when I went to pore fill the classical I found that a giant crack had opened on the back, including a brace ripped form the back. I assume it was damage from the fall that just took awhile to show up.

I took the binding and purflings off with a heat gun and a putty knife. Removed the back, chiseled the kerfing off, and cleaned the whole thing up. I got more wood for back and mostly put it back together this weekend.

I know I should of taken some pictures of the mess but I was not real happy. A couple of days later I got to the point that it is just an opprotunity to practice my skills. The pictured posted are where I am now.

[Darryl Young]

Nice work John!

[David L]

What persistance! Not sure I would be willing to go through all that. I hate re-work!!!!!!!!!!

David L

[johnnparchem]

I am back to where I was but actually better. When the guitar fell and cracked the back, I had extra perfling lines from router error. The back strip was not perfectly lined up with the tail graft. With the new back, I color match is OK, but I have my orginal black white perfling scheme and the end graft lines up perfectly with the back strip. I also got a little extra practice on some of my skills. A little extra work, but a disaster and a guitar recovered.

[Tony_in_NYC]

NICE!! So an accident forced your hand to do a repair you wanted to do anyway! I am glad it worked out and I hope it does not happen again!