I found this 1978 J Series Jumbo Acoustic on Cape Town Gumtree in December, I got a friend of mine to collect it and drive it up to Jo'burg for me.
When the guitar arrived I was quite upset to see that the guitar wasn't in as good a shape as the seller had led me to believe, I suppose that's the chance you take not being able to see and test the guitar before you buy ?
After scouring the net and Youtube trying to find out how to do chip repairs on guitars, I decided to give it a skip 'cos it all seemed a little over my head. I then turned to guitarforum.co.za and came across a thread on someone who had their Tokai Love Rock repaired by Wayne at BvanS Guitars, the end result was amazing. - Checkout the original thread here:
http://www.guitarforum.co.za/setup-mods-and-repair/neon-gecko-fixes-my-guitar-a-pictorial/
I called Wayne the next day and he told me to drop it off and see what could be done, after leaving it with him for 2 weeks it's looking awsome and I can't wait to collect it tomorrow! ?
And checkout the guitars BvanS manufactures, they are superb! -
http://www.facebook.com/bvans.guitars - Wayne kept me updated with the progress on their Facebook page which was a really nice touch.
WOrding under the pics is taken from Wayne's updates on the Facebook page:
This is the original picture sent from the seller ( No close ups!)
This was the disappointing day I received it.
This is the start of the repair process at BvanS Guitars.
First thing to do is open up all the dings that have cracked paint so that when filled they will blend in with the rest of the surface...
The chips have been sealed and filled with colour. I first thought this was black but taking it into better light revealed that it was a black/dark green. So I had to mix this special colour up to match...
The chips are colour matched, filled and rough sanded. I'll give it another 24 hours to allow for the filling to shrink while it cures, fill again if needed and then polish her up...
So I waited a few day to allow the filled areas to finish shrinking during the curing process. I then sanded the filled areas flush with the surface and gave the face the first polish with the final polish to go. Being black, it shines like crazy and does show some of the repaired areas, but at least it is smooth, level and sealed.
This is what the headstock looked like when I got it.
The two chips colour matched and filled, but yet to be rough sanded...
The nasty headstock chips are a thing of the past...
Ready for collection! 8)
