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There are some people who should not be allowed within 10miles of a guitar, cheap or high end !!!! You are one of these morons!!!!!! You need to glue the brace back in place, steam will just cause more glue joints to fail!!! Oh yes they use glue to build guitars, even cheap ones

I'll have 1 fried guitar, with noodles. Hold the nut sauce.

Thank you so very much for making (and keeping) this video available. My father-in-law passed away this past August, and I inherited his Fender acoustic. He often complained that it wouldn't stay in tune and would ask me to look at it, but always at a family event when there wasn't an opportunity to really check it out. Now that he's gone, I've found the problem - the top cross brace by the bridge came loose, and the top has warped. I was surprised to find out that this rather old looking guitar is actually from 2001! He really didn't take good care of it. At any rate, it is my intention to repair the guitar and make it playable to honor his memory. Thank you for giving me some information to help make this possible.

Rubner makes something like that

whatever happened with this build? do you still have the guitar? what color did you end up painting it with? cool design you did on it, it looks like a mix between standard strat and ibanez rx, tx for posting

I’d added ukulele machine heads to my violin. Perfect length pegs. A little heavier than wooden, but worth the lack of frustration from slipped wooden pegs

This a bummer 😕 I just bought a taylor 914 CE and it has the same problem.

Wow. What a concept. I have a Jumbo Taylor 12 string that I brought to Philippines for a couple years. Now back in California. Its been mostly in its case but now the top is bowed and even though neck pretty straight the action is high and its hard to play. Maybe i can fix it. Its an expensive guitar and a shame to see it go to waste. Thanks for your info and i hope your work lasted.

this is awesome man!

Thanks

Thanks Wheel good tips , I had a bulge in my Maton so I removed the bridge and microwaved a wet tea towel until it was steaming then applied pressure where the bridge was with a block and the bulge is gone . Still going to put in a bridge doctor though for strength .

Interesting. Did it remain straight after the whole process? I've heard once the guitar top is warped, no matter what you do, the wood will have a memory and return to the warped condition. Have an old 7 strings and am wanting to try your tips, though.

I did this once. Worked great but made the scroll end to heavy. Switched to Wittner fine tuners. More expensive but OHHHHH so worth it.

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Wheel Nelson I just replaced the Friction Pegs on my 5 String Cello w/ Machine Heads:czcams.com/video/NFG7KhnH5TI/video.html

1:53 Machine Head Tuners are far more superior than those obsolete Friction Tuners cause they turn more smoothly plus you can eliminate fine tuners from the Tailpiece which will liven the sound up. The Headstock on this Violin is made out of Plastic & the friction Tuners don't work good in that material, but Machine Head Tuners do.

Wheel Nelson What brand of Violin is this in the Video? The Machine Heads are a big improvement over the Friction Pegs cause 1) they stay put, & 2) they're basically pegs & fine tuners in 1 piece meaning you can get rid of the fine tuners from the Tailpiece & allow the instrument to vibrate more freely.

Replace the upstrokes with down strokes and your good upstrokes is ska and reggae is down strokes

The neck fitting looks kinda loose ..

The Violins in the Hupfeld Phonolist Violina have Geared tuners too so that helps with tuning.

It kinda looks like the Violins from a Hupfeld Phonolist Violina w/ Geared Tuners.

Wheel Nelson These machine head tuners are feather light weight which means it's not that heavy.

@UCsrGAG_kcQseFhfLnT4IByw The other cool thing about Geared Tuners is that they're not made out of Ebony (or any common wood used for these pegs) cause it's an endangered material. These Tuners are more Eco friendly cause they're made out of Recycled Metal & plastic, plus they enhance the instrument sound by putting the strings at a little bit sharper angle.

A friend of mine named Marijke Ras made a Steampunk Violin & because there's a crack near the hole of the 2nd String Tuning Peg, she went w/ Geared Tuners (Ukulele Machine Heads) which act as pegs w/ built in fine tuners that never slip. Funny thing Double Basses always come w/ these Machine heads & lots of companies call these Tuning keys "Easy Tune machine heads".

@UCsrGAG_kcQseFhfLnT4IByw Violinists, Violists, & Cellists would rather have Geared Tuners & they're way more comfortable these days due to a lot of updates.

Screwing the Tuning keys in is easy.

What brand of Violin is this?

If you parents buy your kids a Violin, Viola, or Cello I reccomend replacing the friction pegs w/ Geared tuners as well as removing the fine tuners from the Tailpiece because not only will tuning it be easier, it'll vibrate more freely.

For how many days those bars you placed inside will be taken out?

Weather you're a beginner or expert I recommend getting machine head tuners installed on your Violin because tuning will be alot simpler plus you won't need fine tuners anymore. The original tuning machines for Violin are Open geared (not closed gear) so they're not that heavy.

The Original Geared Tuning machines for Violin (Guitar style tuners) were Open Geared so they're not as heavy as you might think (as if they were closed gear).

The Machine Head tuners not only look great, but they work great too. They should phase out all the friction pegs & fine tuners, & just stick to using the fresh new Guitar style tuning machines. Compared to the Perfection pegs, these ones are more functional because you can use a string winder to crank them for easier string change.

is there a tab for this version?

Dry fit once before going for glue. Thanks!

Thank you so much!!

What an asshole, no bridge, no controle point, no nek-rest, and a clamp that fucks up you're fred(board)

I used tuners with a shaft of 10mm, but I have an issue with the A string : I can I put the string thourg the "pegs" when there is no space between the "pegs" and the scroll ? How did you manage that ?

This video is gonna be great, got a guitar in pretty extreme condition from my mom so I want to do a full repair this is an amazing method

Can you put the shim right on the brace?

It look like an upright bass 😆

dunno if your still on you tube but thanks man

Thanks brother! We love to play pepper sounds. One more learned!

Hi Wheel, very interesting, and very fast results.I got a project going on that is in 4 months going into 5. its an acoustic guitar from Japan.in the 70's made. All these years Strings pulling on the bridge and the wood in front sort of bowed down resulting in bridge and top kind of rolled forward. Intonation became sharp by a good solid 1/8" . I figured if I could roll that bridge area back I could fix the intonation, at least close. So I set guitar to stand up, got long threaded studs. Stuck through the holes where string pins go.with flat washers and nuts tighten holding bridge and body together with 6" still sticking out. I then placed a can filled with water on the inside of the guitar, I then sealed all the openings up. I then placed for first 2 months a brick on the extended bolts, did not get results I wanted. Replaced the water and added a additional brick and 1/2 brick. so guitar now had two and a half bricks resting on the 2 threaded studs inserted into the bridge's string holes. for 2 more months. the weight had me worried so I would look at the guitar everyday fearing the bridge might separate from body. The months went by slowly and the guitar was in a large closet that also contained a water heater. Temperature is consistent a nice warmth and not disturbed ,only my visits Well it worked. The guitar is back in closet. I put it in there to dry out. The water that was in can had all but disappeared I still have a brick, only one now. on studs. Now I have reversed what has happened in time. But what happens when I put strings on again? I have been reading about shellac or lacquer the inside but I don't think that would be my solution to stop my fix from being reversed. I would very appreciate your thoughts. Thanks

If the brace ends up diverging again next summer, try running some tightbond glue over the top of the brace before placing your stilts inside. After a couple of days you should be back in business

You sound like the singer from Long Beach Shortbus good video

What guitar tuners do you use? I need to do this because I am ready to smash my violin and burn it!

I know this is a old post BUT the fact you said "this is just a cheap guitar" keeps going through my head when I look at an early 70's Yamaha 12 string Red Label contemplating doing this!!!!!!!!!

this is the greatest thing ive ever seen

Thanks you so much bro!!! Greetings from Perú!!! lml

Dumb question but would this apply to a mandolin as well?