I've got an old late 1920's - early 1930's Supertone parlor sized acoustic that I plan to restore. I got it at a garage sale for $2 several years ago and finally want to get around to fixing it up.
It needs several issues fixed: neck reset, new fingerboard and bridge, a couple top cracks, and a couple loose braces. It looks like the neck started bending forward which broke the fingerboard at the body joint and popped the fingerboard off the neck. The fingerboard is extremely brittle and I am missing part of the fingerboard but I have enough of it to figure out that it was approximately a 24 inch scale. The top is cracked over the neck block on either side of the fingerboard extension, as well as 2 cracks between the bridge and tailblock.
Its not like this guitar is worth much, but I think it will be a cool little guitar when complete and will give me some practice in case I ever have to do any restoration work on anything more valuable. I'll be adding more pics of the restoration process soon, but here's a pic of the guitar and a couple of the things that need to be fixed.
It needs several issues fixed: neck reset, new fingerboard and bridge, a couple top cracks, and a couple loose braces. It looks like the neck started bending forward which broke the fingerboard at the body joint and popped the fingerboard off the neck. The fingerboard is extremely brittle and I am missing part of the fingerboard but I have enough of it to figure out that it was approximately a 24 inch scale. The top is cracked over the neck block on either side of the fingerboard extension, as well as 2 cracks between the bridge and tailblock.
Its not like this guitar is worth much, but I think it will be a cool little guitar when complete and will give me some practice in case I ever have to do any restoration work on anything more valuable. I'll be adding more pics of the restoration process soon, but here's a pic of the guitar and a couple of the things that need to be fixed.