Saturday, January 8, 2011

I got a free damaged acoustic guitar

Last year I got a free guitar that was going into the trash and this is what I had to do to make it playable again.  On New Year's Eve December 31, 2010 I started the repair project. This guitar is a JB Player HW41-303N Acoustic dreadnought style guitar made in China (per the paper label inside the sound box).  This brand may be related to Hondo or the Musiccorp name.  The JB Player name came about around 2005.  I can't find the name of the designer who's responsible for the guitar but the quality is not too bad but still classed as a cheaply made guitar. The the poor craftsmanship of the neck edge binding and the fingerboard is mostly what my eyes see as issues, but I'm not guitar pro.  The truss rod is accessible thru the sound hole but there is no visible end of the rod at the headstock end.  The sides, back, and neck are made of solid mahogany and the flat top wood is still a mystery to me for now.  The fingerboard and bridge is rosewood.  The compensated saddle is made of plastic and I'm missing the nut.  The bridge pins are also made of plastic.  The rosette on the sound hole has a nice design but some areas are faded.  The pick guard overlaps the rosette by a wee bit but only luthers will notice.

Damage:
Headstock broken off just below the tuning machines and above the nut.
Missing nut.
No strings
Other that the above mentioned, the guitar is in beautiful condition!  Found a few dings on the flat top surface but the back of the guitar looks clear and unscratched.  The tuners look fine but will need to wait and see after the strings are installed.

The final ultimate plan is to give my repaired guitars away to a middle or high school system.  So I'm in this project just for the fun of repairing something worthwhile and give our school system another musical instrument to use to teach students with.

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