{"id":275,"date":"2006-06-02T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2006-06-02T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T11:35:02","slug":"guitar_repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Guitar repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be insane. Here I have a vintage guitar worth over 3000.- SFr. and I repair it myself. I spent the whole morning Yesterday preparing for the event. I searched the web on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frets.com\/FRETSPages\/Luthier\/Technique\/Guitar\/Structural\/00028TopFail\/00028top.html\">how to do it<\/a>, what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fretnotguitarrepair.com\/glues.htm\">glue<\/a> to use and I pray that this will turn out good. To get the right tools in Chiang Mai is an adventure in itself. The only clamps I got don&#8217;t properly fit. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/questasia.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/guitar_repair.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=500,height=351,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Guitar_repair\" title=\"Guitar_repair\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/images\/guitar_repair.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>The bridge of the lowden is in itself a piece of art. It is not just straight and even. To apply the clamps I had to chisel a piece of would into shape.&nbsp; I used UHU wood glue (the only decent&nbsp; brand I found) It should dry withinn 40 minutes, but will be totally dry in 6 hours. I leave the clamps on for the night and a day. The scary thing will be to put the strings on.I realy hope to be able get my guitar back to use. It is a dream of a guitar. I searched the web for guitars. I wannt to start to save money for a new one. I looked at guitars in Chiang Mai, but after playing for over twenty years I just don&#8217;t want to get a cheap thing. The lowden is very worn and it would be good to have another accustic guitar. Lillian and I both use the Lowden a lot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/questasia.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/backpacker_guitar.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=499,height=412,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"206\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Backpacker_guitar\" title=\"Backpacker_guitar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/images\/backpacker_guitar.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>For travelling and ministry in the villages I use a Martin Backpacker Guitar. A friend brought it from the Staates several years ago. It is a great guitar for travelling and has a loud but thin sound. It comes in a black soft case. It looks like I carry a rifle with me when I get on airplanes. Unfortunatly there is no pick-up and for stage use the Backpacker is not realy practical.<\/p>\n<p>This is Eli on the picture. He is a bible school student who was an intern with our churchplant in Hui Kau Laam for a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be insane. Here I have a vintage guitar worth over 3000.- SFr. and I repair it myself. I spent the whole morning Yesterday preparing for the event. I searched the web on how to do it, what glue to use and I pray that this will turn out good. To get the right&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}