This is the first acoustic guitar I ever built, though I had made a couple of resonator guitars the year before. I gave it to my sister who played it up till last fall. She really liked the small archtop experimental guitar I had made, so I traded with her. This old one had a really excessively thick neck, being my first one, so I was glad to have the opportunity to thin it down to what I feel is more normal. I have thinned the neck and refinished it, and gone over the guitar with a touch up coat of Tru Oil. There are some minor dings and such, but no major wear or damage other than two hairline cracks in the soundboard, one on either side of the end of the fretboard. The neck block and braces are still all firmly glued, so I think these cracks are from some of the humidity extremes this guitar has experienced over the years. I have glued the cracks and they are stable, and can be seen in the last picture. The guitar has a cherry back, sides, and neck, and some kind of spruce for the soundboard. The binding is curly maple. I made a quick video of this guitar after it was worked on.
