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This guitar has a classic neck crack and a small hairline back crack, the owner said a stage hand kicked it or something.

A look inside reveals a much more serious damage that isn't so easily detected without careful examination...





Two back braces, one in the waist and the one right below that is cracked in a bad way. I will have to find some way of clamping them... The line in the back brace of the third photo is actually an open crack. The entire top section of the brace is loose. The brace below that has a crack that isn't easily seen in the photo but it's there.

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