{"id":480,"date":"2013-07-26T14:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T18:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/?p=480"},"modified":"2013-08-17T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T18:59:34","slug":"1931-martin-om-28-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"1931 Martin OM-28 Restoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This guitar came to me from a client in Portland in terrible shape: it had numerous badly-done repairs from its past, a gloppy-looking refinishing job (probably urethane, given how hard it was to remove), as well as some replacement pieces &#8212; notably the bridge &#8212; that didn&#8217;t look even remotely original.<\/p>\n<p>My task was to undo the bad, and restore it to playability with some semblance of \u00a0original appearance and material. \u00a0I refinished it (since the original finish was long, long gone) with French polished shellac, did significant structural repairs on the body, and reset the neck, along with other playability-related and cosmetic repairs. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the finished instrument:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_11-58-29_40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-481\" alt=\"OM-28 full frontal\" src=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_11-58-29_40-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_11-58-29_40-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_11-58-29_40-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-10-38_659.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-482\" alt=\"OM-28 iso\" src=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-10-38_659-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-10-38_659-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-10-38_659-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-19-39_231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-483\" alt=\"OM-28 back\" src=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-19-39_231-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-19-39_231-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-19-39_231-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_11-58-55_970.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-484\" alt=\"OM-28 front\" src=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_11-58-55_970-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_11-58-55_970-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_11-58-55_970-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-20-37_161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-485\" alt=\"OM-28 neck heel\" src=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-20-37_161-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-20-37_161-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-20-37_161-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-00-02_765.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-486\" alt=\"OM-28 soundhole det\" src=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-00-02_765-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-00-02_765-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/submusicworks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2012-10-29_12-00-02_765-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and after all that, boy, does this guitar sound amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guitar came to me from a client in Portland in terrible shape: it had numerous badly-done repairs from its past, a gloppy-looking refinishing job (probably urethane, given how hard it was to remove), as well as some replacement pieces &#8212; notably the bridge &#8212; that didn&#8217;t look even remotely original. 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