A little time on my $15 thrift shop guitar repairs today. I've been experimenting with finish repairs for the top dents, gouges and splits, and seem to have something that works pretty well… after lots of tests.
It's time intensive, with lots of steps, and building of layers, but it seems to preserve the wood tone and I'm hopeful the damaged areas will be subdued quite well.
Incidentally, I stumbled across an identical guitar to mine for sale online ( 2yr old posting).
It appears to be in very bad shape, see pic below, worse perhaps than my $15 thrift-shop one, and yet the seller asked $1100 for it. 😲
Looks like a major split badly repaired (I had one of those too) plus a terrible coat of varnish globbed onto it.
Happy to have low bar to define success for me on my project. 😂
Back to my guitar work - did a bit more effort on the back too. Here's the before-and-after pair.
I think it can still be better. Will return to it after the top stabilizes.
Ross of Ottawa
Tricia Wood