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Originally Posted by Wade Hampton
Okay, I just went back and reread your post. You wrote:
Yes, but you don't know what the glue in question happens to be. That "...or something similar" you wrote leaves an immense amount of wiggle room for speculation, which is really all that you have.
What you know is that somebody botched that repair on your grandfather's Martin. Fair enough. That sucks.
What you don't know is what glue was used, and from your post it seems that you don't know who did the work, either, whether it was an actual guitar repair tech who knew what he was doing or some shade tree mechanic friend of your grandfather's who told him:
"Oh, hell, Floyd, I can fix that for you...."
I don't mean to be overbearing here, but from my perspective it seems as though you're telling the OP to run away from this possible transaction without knowing the particulars of either your grandfather's guitar repair or the work that was done on the guitar he's looking at.
Wade Hampton Miller
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Actually the opposite. The point of my post was to show my own personal example of a botched repair and show that even a botched repair can be fixed.
OP—check the guitar out in person and don’t let the bridge reglue issue stand in the way of getting a great guitar. If it was done properly it should never be a problem. If it was done poorly (like my grandpa’s HD-28) it can be fixed.
My apologies if I led you to believe otherwise.