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This Martin Restoration is worth a watch

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hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 3605
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Foreign language but the repair process speaks for itself ,it’s in 2 parts . Fixing of what looks like a fire damaged High number D model . Great video  interesting looking studio shop too 
https://youtu.be/kibMCF7doqM

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  • guitarjack66guitarjack66 Frets: 1397
    Fascinating stuff. I'm not sure a 1970s porno film soundtrack suits the documentary, but hey ho!
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  • hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 3605
    I’m wondering at its story , it looks like it’s a special edition , it’s seems to commemorate a festival in the inlays . It looks like it was thrown on the campfire . Very well filmed videos though & great restoration work 
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  • guitarjack66guitarjack66 Frets: 1397
    hollywoodrox said:
    I’m wondering at its story , it looks like it’s a special edition , it’s seems to commemorate a festival in the inlays . It looks like it was thrown on the campfire . Very well filmed videos though & great restoration work 
    I managed to get a translate option working on youtube. It was a 40th anniversary of the Philadelphia Folk Festival edition with only around 20-40 made. All the artists had signed(or their signatures were screen printed) on the body before the top was lut on. It belongs to a collector and they agreed to replace the top with the craftsman,who has around 15 years experience.
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  • hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 3605
    Wow ,that is a limited run indeed , thanks 
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  • guitarjack66guitarjack66 Frets: 1397
    hollywoodrox said:
    Wow ,that is a limited run indeed , thanks 
    My guess is 40 made for 40 years? I just don't recall the exact number because I forgot! It was low though. The guitar had a different neck joint than normal,a screw instead of a shaped groove and different bracing too apparently. Some of the chemicals used could have blinded the luthier,he commented.
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  • hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 3605
    Their workshop looks full of high end stuff 
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  • BillDLBillDL Frets: 5615
    I was curious about the neck joint.  The luthier was obviously expecting a standard glued-in dovetail joint, and he was obviously puzzled until he realised it was a mortise and tenon with a bolt.  I don't know much about the construction methods of the different models through the years, but it struck me from the reaction of a highly experienced luthier (you can see this in the confident way he works) that this is an unusual neck join.
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  • TanninTannin Frets: 4394
    Not unusual per se, Bill, but certainly unusual in a special edition Martin.(A company which takes pride in doing things the  same way they used to do them.) Who would have expected that?

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