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04-06-2015, 10:56 AM
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Top cracks in a Taylor Big Baby / easy or hard repair ?
Hi folks !
thinkin' about picking this up on the used market for a very low price... based on the pics, do you feel this is an easy or difficult repair ? pretty familiar with woodworking, and have C clamps and various other woodworking tools... any help on how to approach this repair would be helpful... I'm told the bracing is still intact inside the guitar... 
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2013 Taylor Fall Limited GS Mini RW 2008 Taylor Custom GS trans-black 2000/2007 Taylor Baby 301-R-GB 1997 Takamine EF341C 1984 Larrivee RS4 solid body Electric 1935 Harmony Archtop 
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#2
04-06-2015, 12:23 PM
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The bracing MAY be intact, but it's almost certainly at least partially detached.
It looks like the top is broken across the grain right on top of the X brace. For me, it would not be an easy fix.
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Rodger Knox, PE 1917 Martin 0-28 1956 Gibson J-50 et al
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04-07-2015, 07:15 AM
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It is not an insignificant repair. The top does indeed seem as if it has detached from the linings. It could be done in one session, but likely 2 or more gluing/clamping sessions are necessary with interesting use of clamps to bring back to original shape. If you don't mind the outcome, then just get glue in all the cracks (including the lifting braces inside) and play away, but if you want it done well and made flat, and the side compressed to fit, it is probably best left to a pro.
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---- Ned Milburn NSDCC Master Artisan Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
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04-07-2015, 04:28 PM
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used price
Sort of like buying used cars. Here's my opinions on the matter, and they're worth what you're paying for them: You'll get your brains beat out buying used cars if you subtract the (hopeful) cost of repairs from the price of a vehicle that is comparable but doesn't need the repair. That car, in fact, is a project, and the risk attending adopting the project needs to be accounted for. Otherwise you're giving the seller all the value of an undamaged vehicle less the ambiguous repair costs. And the buyer is taking all the risks about the extent and cost of repairs. Projects have much lower value than running vehicles. If the seller is not aware of the distinctions, and refuses to act realistically in the eyes of the buyer, no meeting of the minds occurs and no sale does either.
Same for guitars. Again, personal opinion, ONLY.
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