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1969 Guild Mark III classical :: bridge reglue, new bone saddle & tuners remounted

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1969 Guild Mark III classical :: bridge reglue, new bone saddle & tuners remounted

1969 Guild Mark III classical :: bridge reglue, new bone saddle & tuners remounted.This guitar came into the shop with the bridge fully removed and severe top damage in front of the bass-side wing.  I’m not sure if it was caused by an amate…

1969 Guild Mark III classical :: bridge reglue, new bone saddle & tuners remounted.

This guitar came into the shop with the bridge fully removed and severe top damage in front of the bass-side wing.  I’m not sure if it was caused by an amateur bridge removal or the possibility of having steel strings at some point in its life.  Maybe it was left in a hot car and the glue softened enough to fail catastrophically?  Anyways, I refit and glued the bridge (look at that Brazilian rosewood!) with hide glue and made a new bone saddle.  The top damaged was sealed with shellac.  The tuners were missing most of the mounting screws and the few remaining ones were stripped out.  I plugged and redrilled the screw holes and used new screws to secure the tuners.

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