Cracked Acoustic Guitar Repair - Keith Holland video free download


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Duration: 03:17
Uploaded: 2010/09/02

Watch as Keith Holland of Keith Holland Guitars, expert luthier providing Guitar Repair service to San Jose, Los Gatos and San Francisco Bay area, repairs a cracked acoustic guitar that has traveled along the body sides.This video highlights the need to repair a guitar crack as soon as possible. Cracks can start out as tiny little annoyances, but can quickly grow out of hand, rendering a guitar unplayable.

The sooner you can get a crack repaired, the better. A harmless looking crack in an otherwise aesthetic area can easily spread and threaten the structural integrity of the instrument. And if that's not enough, as time passes the exposed wood in the crack oxidizes, which means that the repair will be more noticeable the longer you wait.

For best results, Keith recommends all guitars with crack problems be brought in for repair within 24 hours whenever possible......

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Comments

8 years ago

mounson ndh

tu n'a pas vraiment montré comment tu as travaillé donc sans interet?!

8 years ago

robertbdesmond

What type of glue did you use?

8 years ago

Seasons of the dead

Great for you but not very educational awesome clamp idea wish you could of shared more info about them

9 years ago

milance2111

is it possibe for you to make some good rewiev and exsplanation of these kind of clamps?

9 years ago

5onCover

Keith you are a genius! We used to live in the Bay area but it's way too expensive so we're in So. Cal now (: I wish I'd seen this before I glued a cracked top on my uke. BUT I used Tite Bond which is reversible (: Not sure how to remove it yet or if I'm up to it with three kids. But maybe later on (: Thank you!!!

9 years ago

Leo Barnard

I have exactly the same crack on an unusual old guitar (belonged to Santana!) wondering what size fleets to use, either a few big ones or more small ones? Also if you squirted title bond along the cracks before clamping or added a bead along the back. Cheers! 

9 years ago

--cLAsic--

Wow ! Amazing how you did that, Beautiful job. 

9 years ago

Jason Gearhart

Keith, I'm curious, when do you make the call as to whether or not a guitar is worth saving?

9 years ago

Craig Wright

You showed everything except how to do the actual repair. 

10 years ago

acdc51502112

Hey Keith great job here! I'm wondering how much this repair would cost as my buddy's acoustic recently cracked in the same place with a 6" crack. Just wondering for a ballpark on this thanks.

10 years ago

Keith Holland

Soapboxearth2, yes, I built those clamps in the 70's. Who knew?

10 years ago

Keith Holland

Ed, this sounds like a fret problem. Do you have a local repairman that you trust? 

10 years ago

registeredguest

Hello, Keith! I have used your technique to repair cracks in the side of my son's Martin, and now he has a crack in the body running down the center of the front, starting just below the bridge and continuing to the edge. I made clamps as you suggested and they worked great- should I use the same technique on the front? Thanks!

10 years ago

Edd Morton

I have an old epiphone accoustic that I would like to keep and I recently took it out for the first time in a long time and changed strings on it and did a pretty good general cleanup on it. I discovered that when I press down on the bottom string..3rd fret...G note that it is dead. Is this a bad fret,nut problem..bridge...I just don't know! Does anyone out there know what it would be?

10 years ago

soapboxearth2

hey bud, those les paul tuners look like a valuable model. i noticed the double ring on the plastic button.most only have one.probably worth a few bucks

10 years ago

Josh Tom

is their any way to take a top off an acoustic guitar and put a new one on, i have a guitar with a severely buckled top with big cracks on it, so i would like to put on a new top

10 years ago

rediryou

Did you glue the cleats in at the same time that you glued the cracks? And did you use spool clamps or something on the top and back to compress the crack perpendicular to the crack?

10 years ago

Barry Proctor

That is awesome. Mine has a 2 inch crack on the back. Looks like its only on the very outer edge. Toddler ran in and jumped on my guitar case.

10 years ago

sabes212

ahoj. taky už jsem nějaké kytara spravoval. opravdu skvělá práce.

10 years ago

Arthur Elizondo

Great job gluing the broken wood. But that job isn't finished. Could you show how you repair the Clear Coat? In this case, being a large area, you probably have to sand or use a laquer thiner to to remove most of the clear coat. Is there an easy way to fix the clear coat?

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