Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Sharp fret ends & center seam crack :: 2014 Maton EBG808C "Michael Fix" [4.3 lbs]
Another victim of a long, dry New England winter. The fret ends were sticking out from the unbound fingerboard and the top's center seam had opened up slightly just behind the bridge. The fret ends were dressed and the top crack humidified closed, glued and cleated along with a minor finish touch up.
Dried-out Fret Level :: Gitane DG-455 [4.0 lbs]
This past winter took it's toll on this thinline gypsy jazz guitar. The guitar had dried out to the point of the strings touching the frets, along with top cracks along the fingerboard extension. The fingerboard also developed cracks where the frets were pushing out the ends of the board. The cracks were all glued and the sharp / raised frets were leveled and dressed.
Fingerboard extension top crack splint :: 2007 Pavan TP-30 [3.9 lbs]
This classical has a nasty crack in the top that runs along the bass side of the fingerboard clean into the sound hole. The crack had loosened the fingerboard brace so that was addressed first. Two cleats were then fit and glued to support the break (one along the fingerboard, one just inside the sound hole). This crack was far too open to just glue up (even with humidifying), so a thin spruce splint was fit, glued and trimmed into the crack with a minor color touch up to better match the top.
Dried out fingerboard brace re-glue :: 2007 Pavan TP-30
This nasty fingerboard extension crack took out the fingerboard brace in it's wake. Here the brace is being re-glued before fitting and gluing in two reinforcement cleats.
Top cracks :: 2004 Gibson SJ-200
This Gibson jumbo is showing the effects of this cold dry winter with a few top cracks. A portion of the center seam was open and needed to be humidified, glued and cleated. Along both sides of the fingerboard extension are top cracks running clean into the sound hole. These cracks were glued and reinforced with a single large cross-grain patch that follows just inside of the sound hole and butts up against the fingerboard brace.
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