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Glued the bridge back on the old guitar which had belonged to my FIL. It really isn't much of an instrument, a Minerva sold in the '40s. It had been subjected to the very dry air in their old farmhouse. There were some splits in the back, a couple of loose braces inside and the bridge was coming adrift.


I got the humidity levels back up over a couple of months. The pic above is after the cracks closed, then steamed areas, applied glue and clamped using gussets and a fine wire. I made a new brace for one position but will try to salvage the other, as it is under the sound hole. Oh yeah, the machine heads were past it too.
This is the guitar my wife learned to play on. It will never be a show piece, but it won't be tossed to the curb.
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