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It's pretty beat up. It was rode hard and put away wet. Cracked top, tweaked tail piece, really horrible patch job on the side.

But from a builders stand point, just amazing for being almost 100yrs old. While inspecting with a. Mirror someone tried to repair a crack with wallpaper and cardboard decades ago. I know it's not super relative to building, but I figured I would share.


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Thanks for sharing. It IS super cool!

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Steve Sollod (pronounced sorta like "Solid")
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YEP Super Cool is right

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EddieLee

Cool, looks like a great project

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Aw heck!

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Excellent project for a sympathetic once over and a keeper for sure, what a great score.


Steve

Looking forward to watching this .

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Pretty nice looking Style O I am a Gibson Fan and this guitar has always intrigued me. Not a great collector item unless you are into the unusual early Gibsons. I am guessing it is a 1908 or 9? It will be a nice guitar to add to a collection.

I hope you keep us informed on your progress. It will be nice to see how it turns out.

Cheers,
Bob

ME WANT NOW!

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I will begin building one of these next month.

Michael

I played one a couple years back at Chicago Music Exchange .. it had the biggest neck I ever laid my hands on !!! .. a real boat neck

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Is this yours, jwardle, or a repair?

That's a wonderful old guitar. I hope you will document any and all repairs that you do (and the older repairs, too--that would be very interesting). Nice score!

I had one of those about 30+ years ago. The tuners were shot so I replaced them with a set of "pearl" buttoned rotomatic type tuners (don't remember if they were Grovers or Schallers). The finish was messed up on the top so I stripped it , which helped redistribute some of the dye, and refinished it with Birchwood Casey Truoil. It was a funky old guitar with a a baseball bat neck - It didn't sound great, but didn't sound bad. I sold it to a cousin of mine for breakeven. Today I may have done things differently, but back then it was an old guitar with worn out tuners and a grungy top.

I will keep everyone posted on the progress!