Volute Headstock Repair

I tend to use splines only when it is a 2nd break or if the break is on the scarf joint.

This was a first break on a Tanglewood acoustic guitar. I used hot hide glue and did some minimal touch up with cyanoacrylate and a french polish so that the break area was smooth to the touch.

August 2012

 4534 Nicollet August 8th, 2012. 

Here's a Martin that was on one of my benches last week. Crack repair, partial re-fret, new bone nut & saddle plus a K & K Pure Mini pickup. I use the sound hole pickup (made by Seymour Duncan) to set intonation. The K & K pickup is installed inside the instrument  at the bridge plate and goes out through an end button jack. Pretty nice.

I've started carrying both K & K and L.R. Baggs pickups for acoustic instruments. Check them out if you are not familiar:

http://www.kksound.com/

http://www.lrbaggs.com/