All Quiet on the H7 Front #1: Norman B20

earwighoney

Some of the 'repairs' in the OP look like the work of a Cleartone conversion.  

Fine work though H7! 

Funkfingers

Needs a Buzz Fightin’ nut!

HarrySeven

Some strings, bridge pins and bridge saddle should be arriving later today, so I thought I’d stop fannying about with the guitar and wait until it’s strung up before any more cosmetics.

Machine heads now installed:

https://i.imgur.com/uD5gPTP.jpg

Bridge filled with hardwood and re-cut to accept RH saddle:

https://i.imgur.com/8R1SCnv.jpg

HarrySeven

Just finished stringing it up...

https://i.imgur.com/iBwJ4jk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ux6VBga.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eGMDD6e.jpg

It’s never going to win any beauty contests, but it plays great - really pleased!

HarrySeven

*looks around for next ‘hopeless’ project to save*

Rocker

Fair dues to you my friend.  You did a great job rescuing that old guitar.

boogieman

Well saved sir. Any idea what those concentric marks on the back/top of the neck were?

BluesyDave

Great save and some meticulous time consuming work there.  Very nicely done.  You have turned firewood into an instrument.

HarrySeven

boogieman said:

Well saved sir. Any idea what those concentric marks on the back/top of the neck were?

Clamping marks!

HarrySeven

Rocker said:

Fair dues to you my friend.  You did a great job rescuing that old guitar.

Ta!

HarrySeven

BluesyDave said:

Great save and some meticulous time consuming work there.  Very nicely done.  You have turned firewood into an instrument.

Must say, I love projects like this, despite my limited woodworking skills. 

LastMantra

Amazeballs!

Henrytwang

Looks good for another 25 years.

ESBlonde

That looks like a solid and honest repair. Well done.

HarrySeven

Cheers!

normula1

Great work, now head over to Nashville, I hear there's a small outfit over there who seem to have had an accident with 350 instruments that now need fixing.

Funkfingers

In reference to the Gibson deliberate destruction of several Firebird X objects, but for the want of a tracked plant driving license, H7 would probably have gladly crushed them himself.

HarrySeven

Funkfingers said:

In reference to the Gibson deliberate destruction of several Firebird X objects, but for the want of a tracked plant driving license, H7 would probably have gladly crushed them himself.

Nah, they’d be in the stash by now...

Skipped

Good work Harry.

Norman Boucher's  two sons went on to launch Boucher guitars. (Not cheap)

 

DartmoorHedgehog

Funkfingers said:

Spiny Norman? 

I think now it's Spliny Norman

Nice work @HarrySeven - good to see things saved rather than scrapped.