Chubbuck Guitars / Kevin Chubbuck, making & repairing guitars in an old building just north of Boston, Massachusetts.
Loose ribs :: Lyon & Healy bowl back mandolin
The a few of the Brazilian rosewood ribs on this bowl back mandolin were loose and needed to be re-glued. I quickly brushed hide glue into the seams and wrapped the body with large rubber bands to clamp them closed. Next up is fixing a couple missing soundhole pieces before gluing up the neck.
Loose tuner bushings :: 2012 Martin OM-42
Here's a loose high e tuner bushing on this Martin OM. There's a fine line when fitting bushings between just right and too loose. Too tight and you can risk damaging the headstock. Too loose can mess with tuning stability. The easy fix is to pull the tuner and bushing and apply superglue to the tuner hole. Once cured, you can test the fit and reapply if necessary. (Do NOT glue the bushings in!)
Suck it :: Chubbuck Rogue 005
Bridge glue up on Rogue 005. A vacuum pump pulls air out, the weight of the atmosphere pushes down.
Heat pressing a straight neck :: 2008 Kinal Kompact acoustic bass
The combination of a 30" short scale and low-tension light gauge strings was not enough to pull this neck into a forward bow (relief). The neck was dead straight with the truss rod backed off and needed some relief in order to get away with lower action. Here I'm using my temperature controller along with a fingerboard-sized heat blanket to warm the glue joint between the neck and fingerboard. Strategically placed feeler gauges arranged along a rigid clamping block gently flex the neck into a forward bow while the glue softens. This forward bow now allows the truss rod a usable range.
