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Ross of Ottawa
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Hide glue heated and sticky, and a second glue-up on my guitar project done.

Going slow, and trying slowly increment through the tasks.

Awkward-access challenges, bad prev repairs to undo, resistant gaps to close, but I'm gradually getting the easier bits dealt with, working my way up to the monsters.

Tried to steam a few dents with only minor improvements. Happy to leave an honest patina, but hope to rehab the worst crimes.

#yamakiGuitarRehab #Guitar

Ross of Ottawa
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Learning a lot in this process! Expanding my life-long woodworking and fabrication skills into a totally new-to-me space. Great to jump into things as a neophyte and just learn at every step.

The curse will be that I'll be unable to pass up any cheap broken thrift store guitars I come across in future.


Ross of Ottawa
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I'm a fan of text-only files for taking notes without any unwieldy files or folders full of pics.

A fun part is incorporating
#asciiArt to illustrate steps. Here's my ASCII guitar with some repair sites noted.

I've glued at site '1' and '2' and am working on site 'E' and 'D' where there some nasties.

Ross of Ottawa
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Guitar glue-up #2 is under clamps and I'll leave that until tomorrow. Was pretty happy with the behaviour of the hide glue I mixed up based on the first glue joint. Hope it's similarly good on this pass.

#yamakiGuitarRehab