Comments on: Vintage Gibson L47 – Brace Repair

By: Leena Lannan

Leena Lannan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:58:03 +0000

Thanks for the great article, I was searching for details like this, going to check out the other articles.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:55:07 +0000

For this repair, we didn’t have much of a road map. We just knew that we didn’t want to start peeling off the binding if we could help it so the saw idea just made the most sense. As far as repair books go, our overall favorite is Dan Erlewine’s Guitar Repair Handbook. It covers just about every repair that’s more or less “routine.” I don’t recall if he gets into hard to reach brace repairs or not, but it does go to remarkable depth.

We are also big fans of Frank Ford’s site http://www.frets.com and his discussion site http://www.frets.net. It’s inspired us on a number of occasions where we needed to get creative.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:07:34 +0000

I just discovered the article & its very timely for me. I was asked to reglue portions the top & back of a ‘42 Epi. Triumph. I’ve done a few builds, but not much repair . Do you know of any articles or books that would help ?

By: Ray Manley

Ray Manley — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:17:03 +0000

I have a L47 (1942) I believe which previous owner has stripped and put a somewhat natural finish and varnish on it. Would this be something you would do – refinish in sunburst? If so please advise an estimate…. Thank you..

By: Masterbilt

Masterbilt — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:12:42 +0000

great photos! the asymmetrically placed tone bars are actually typical for “parallel” braced archtops – not only Gibsons, also Epiphones are built that way.

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