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This #toot for your #quooting practice. You can #quoot the bujezuz out of it.

Or, if you click the boost button and there's no "quote" option offered, you'll know you don't have the feature yet. 😆

Not so obvious in the pics, but the top is split in eight or ten places along the grain.

#yamakiGuitarRehab

A couple of snapshots of that abused guitar I picked up last evening for $15 at the thrift store.

It's in rough shape, which is the sort of thing I was looking for. Should be an interesting project over the fall and winter.

I won't be seeking perfection, but hope to stabilize it, and make it playable again. Fun to apply my woodworking skills to a guitar – which I haven't explored before.

#guitars #Yamaki #woodworking

Mine is the 374 model, furthest right.

It's really beat up though, so the before pics will be quite a spectacle. Watch this space.

#yamakiGuitarRehab

…the guitar is Japanese-made, from 1978-1982 by maker Yamaki. Key for me was the solid cedar top and rosewood sides/neck, and properly chamfered frets. Good signs.

It cost me an astounding $15. I see non-trashed ones listed for $500-1500, so it may be substantial enough to hold up to a renovation.

Here's an interesting ad from the early '80s…

I've been watching out for another #guitar for the last year or so. Had hoped for either a good second hand one, or a terrible, beaten-up thrift store special to rehab.

Finding ourselves near a thrift shop tonight, I spied seven terribly abused guitars (incl a Disney Hannah Montana model).

Most were nearly firewood, but one (also trashed) appeared rather well made, and had vaguely believable name. Very damaged, but maybe just what I was looking for. A rainy day project!