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Sometimes I wonder if I am the only one that works on guitars like this. Thought I would post it anyway since I have worked on a number of Harmony's too. Seems like there is some interest out there in buying up the 50-60's budget guitars in my area. Drilled into the 15th fret as usual, but the 15th fret is actually about 1/4" behind the neck pocket. On this guitar there was no glue on the sides of the dovetail. The only glue was between…

So this one is a real doozy. Gorgeous Heritage hollowbody, destroyed in shipping. Owner got a full refund and they didn't want the guitar back, so he has no money in it currently. He's a collector and longtime friend/client/student of mine, which is the only reason I'm even considering it, he understands the potential nightmare this could be, and he builds very serious race cars for a living, so I can have in-depth and frank conversa…

I’ve come across several Takamine lawsuit guitars needing neck resets. These lawsuit guitars are from the 1980’s and are basically a copy of a Martin. Pictured below is a 12-string Takamine that came in for a neck reset. After several hours using heat rods at the 15th fret all of the the wooden dowels would not release. My solution was to take a putty knife with a sharpened edge and using a hammer slice the dowels at the joint. As you c…