Tips and tricks for gluing loose braces
Issue 254 December 03, 2015
Two braces popped loose inside this Epiphone acoustic. Dan makes some do-it-yourself glue scrapers and shares a ton of ideas. With his brace gluing wedge and see-thru plastic guitar, Dan turns this fix into a guitar repair class!
About the guitar in this video: This is a 1961 Epiphone Frontier, the first square-shouldered dreadnought built by Gibson. It served as a prototype for the Hummingbird.
- For a Gibson, this guitar has an oddball truss rod and cover
- Dan spells out the four steps of a brace-gluing job
- Free glue scrapers from old saws and a waxed paper box
- Custom cauls from auto body filler
