Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Pulling dents & closing cracks :: 1971 Guild D25M
This side crack was damaged during shipping (shown here). Here is a dent that is being pulled shut with a guitar string, a cleat puller and a mahogany cleat inside the guitar. The spool clamps are closing the remaining crack. Next up will be installing a few more cleats on this crack, then addressing a couple other side cracks.
Setting a cleat with a guitar string :: 1969 Guild Mark III
Now that the neck and bridge are reset, I'm moving onto a hairline side crack. Here I'm using an unwound guitar string along with a cleat pulling jig to both align the crack and set a reinforcement cleat inside. Note that the string's ball end is clipped off and retied to avoid the windings as we want to keep the hole through the side as small as possible (0.008" in this case).
Next up will be to touch up the finish around this crack, make a new saddle and install an Anthem LR Baggs pickup.
