Alan Hickey
New member
Partly because I'm broke, and partly because I love the sound of old parlour-sized guitars, I'm thinking of buying an old all-solid birch or mahogany guitar like a Stella Harmony and refinishing it.
It seems to me like you can get an £800 sounding guitar for well under £200 if you're lucky and do it well.
I like the sound of this one here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWv0DUXt-wQ
I think because it's been refinished and had the heavy lacquer stripped off, it sounds much brighter and newer than the average vintage acoustic. So I would want to do the same. Put on a new bridge and nut and maybe some newer machine heads.
I'm aware that necks warp over time, if I got one with a warped neck, how difficult/expensive would it be to sort out?
Has anyone done anything like this and can provide me with some advice or things to watch out for?
It seems to me like you can get an £800 sounding guitar for well under £200 if you're lucky and do it well.
I like the sound of this one here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWv0DUXt-wQ
I think because it's been refinished and had the heavy lacquer stripped off, it sounds much brighter and newer than the average vintage acoustic. So I would want to do the same. Put on a new bridge and nut and maybe some newer machine heads.
I'm aware that necks warp over time, if I got one with a warped neck, how difficult/expensive would it be to sort out?
Has anyone done anything like this and can provide me with some advice or things to watch out for?