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These old guitars are here to kick our butt and remind us what is great tone and what we need to aspire to, in order to achieve greatness with our own builds. This 1939 J-35 (that used to belong to Andrea, many years ago) came back in the shop for a visit and - despite all that it has been through during its long life - it has managed to knock once again our socks off. Sweet and powerful tone that comes effortless. One of "those" guitars... If you know, you know.<br />We managed to stop for a second, take a iphone pic and make a quick iphone audio recording, just because...<br />I'll say this again: this audio has been recorded with a iphone. Not a mic. Just wonder what this thing is able to do in front of a good pair of microphones.<br />Hopefully, the Bagnasco & Casati that we're building out of what we blueprinted of this J-35 will sound half as good (on day one. As good as in a little while longer...).<br />.<br />#j35 #threetonebars #vintageguitar
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL!<br /><br />On consignment from the original owner this 2019 12 fret D-18. Hardly played, perfect condition and ready to ship. <br /><br />Features:<br />- moon logged and air dried European RED spruce top (picea abies)<br />- Honduran mahogany back and sides<br />- flamed Honduran mahogany neck<br />- Ebony fingerboard and bridge<br />- 1 3/4" nut ~ 2 3/8" string spacing at the saddle<br />- thin skin pure nitrocellulose lacquer finish<br />- tortoise celuloid bindings; celluloid pickguard<br />- hard shell case<br /><br />PRICE: 7k Euros <br /><br />Please feel free to message or email us (info@guitar-repair.eu) about this guitar.
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL<br />www.guitar-repair.eu<br /><br />This slope shoulder dread takes inspiration from the (few) banner Gibson j-45s from 1945 that shipped from the Kalamazoo factory with laminated maple back and sides. This guitar sports solid maple back and sides, instead. Moon logged and air dried. Just like the Euro red spruce (Picea Abies) top and braces. The 3 piece poplar/mahogany neck keeps straight thanks to a double 'maple V' + carbon fiber rod. Something that we haven't seen so far and that we decided to go for because our client asked for a skinny neck. Think skin pure cellulose finish and a pure celluloid firestripe pickguard complete the package. For more information, you'll need to watch the video and yours truly's very lousy picking on this great sounding guitar.<br />The guitar is pre-sold but if you're interested in anything similar, please feel free to get in touch.<br />And don't forget to subscribe to our channel!
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL!<br /><br />Daniele Bazzani is a good friend and a great fingerstyle guitarist and author, very active here on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@danielebazzani) where he hosts the very popular Acoustic Guitar Show. Check his channel out and check him out on Patreon, too.<br />We had the pleasure to host Daniele in our lab for a guitar workshop a couple of weeks ago, so we took the opportunity to capture something on video.<br />Here are a couple of his original tunes "La Foglia Caduta" and "L'Incontro", played on a pre-owned B&C maple OM that happens to be for sale! In perfect condition, its voice developed and matured over the last couple of years and it's here to point us out how underrated maple is for back and sides wood on a steel string acoustic guitar. We must say this particular set was great to begin with, moon logged and originally cut for cellos, we have a few of these sets and all of them have produced remarkably good sounding guitars. This OM is no exception. Take our word when we say this OM will not disappoint.<br />Please feel free to get in touch for more information on this instrument:<br />info@guitar-repair.eu
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL!<br /><br />for this video we had in mind to get some Christmas lights in the background and I was intending to wear my Steelers cap to honor Franco Harris and the 50th anniversary of his immaculate reception coming so close to the date of his passing. As it goes, I forgot to bring both the lights and the cap to the party. My fault. So we had to make do with the usual background and my everyday wool winter hat, as no hat at all is never an option for me.<br /><br />It has been quite some time since our last video posted, as it goes we've been pretty busy in the shop. <br /><br />This one is a 12 fret D-28 with beautiful Brazilian rosewood back and sides that will be for sale in the US in a matter of weeks. Please feel free to inquiry about this guitar.<br /><br />In the meanwhile, we hope you enjoy the video and yours truly's very lousy picking.
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL!<br /><br />This time no new Bagnasco & Casati build to present. Rather, we've been doing some repair and restoration work lately to get back munching our way through the backlog. We think those two instruments are pretty cool so we thought we'd share... Alessio recorded the same piece of music on both instruments, so that we can have fun to compare the two side by side.<br /><br />Bear in mind the 1940 00-21 has a steel T bar in the neck, is heavier braced and has a set of .012 light 80/20 bronze strings. The 1928 0-21 has no neck rod (nothing, nada, zip) as the bar frets are more than enough to provide the needed rigidity for stability and sound, is very lightly braced and has a set of extra lights 80/20 bronze strings, where we replaced the 1st and 2nd strings with .011 and .015 steel strings respectively. <br /><br />As far as the work that we did:<br /><br />All the 1940 00-21 needed was a neck reset, a full refret and a new bridge, as the old one was shaved beyond rescue. It came into our shop as a rather nice sounding guitar, but now it really sounds nice. Neck reset and refret should really be seen as routine jobs on any acoustic guitar, to undergo every once in a while. You won't believe how bad frets (worn, badly seated, not compressed into the fretboard) are huge tone sinks. Really no point in discussing marginal tone factors such as e.g. bridge pins (we know a lot of guitar players really like to take their time to discuss about their bridge pins) until you get your frets done right.<br /><br />The 1928 0-21 on the other hand needed a lot more than a neck reset, refret and new bridge (which it got, anyway). The top didn't have a proper arch (rather it was sunk in front of the bridge), it was cracked open in various places, had amateur repair work that needed to be undone, and a celluloid firestripe pickguard to hide some mixed butchering of the wood underneath. Also it had the Brazilian rosewood binding missing in spots and the nice wood purflings damaged. Finally, it had a half inch hole drilled through the bridge / top / bridge plate that was hidden by a round piece of black plastic glued on top of a bridge wing. It took some patience from the owner, make no mistake, but we managed to give the top a proper arch, properly plug all holes, reglue the cracks (some with much needed splices), properly reglue the braces where loose, get the ugly pickguard off, replace the damaged binding and purflings, retouch the light bare wood spots, reset the neck, perform a full bar frets refret, make and glue a new pyramid bridge (with a compensated saddle). In the end, we believe the results were more than worth the time (and money) that went into this rescue project.
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