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Nicka
Username: Nicka
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 8:01 pm: | |
I have had this guitar hanging on my wall for a while now and i have decided to have a bit of a clean out and put some of my gear on ebay and i was wondering if this is worth anything or not for the condition its in.
I don't know anything about it other than its a little rough and could do with some TLC but it is still quite playable.
Here's some pics
http://www.eftel.com.au/~iana/g1.jpg
http://www.eftel.com.au/~iana/g2.jpg
http://www.eftel.com.au/~iana/g3.jpg |
Gemberbier
Username: Gemberbier
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 10, 2006 - 5:04 pm: | |
Dear Nicka,
The label says: "Ibanez Salvador" and
"Copy of Raffaele Callace"
So it's a very early Hoshino/Elger product which has historic value. Also it's nice to see that the company was proud of making "Copies of..."
Callace is a famous builder of jazz guitars and mandolins from Napels.
So, is it worth anything? Yes, for sure.
How much? That's hard to say...
Read this:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data4/Ibanez/Salvador-01.html
I you want to improve the condition of the guitar, DON'T REFINISH IT!
What you may do:
- If the tuners are stuck, put a piece of cardboard between the strings and the top of the body (A4 will do), wear goggles and cut the old strings with a cutter right where the cardboard is, so they won't damage the top.
- Remove the strings with a pair of pliers.
- Number the tuners, remove them and put all parts, including all original screws in a glass jam jar, and put it away for a corrosion treatment and oiling the worm wheels.
- Remove the bridge and tailpiece and put them carefully away for further inspection later on.
- Now clean the rosewood fretboard with the finest 0000 steel wool by way of rubbing only lengthwise. If it's clean remove the iron grinding dust with a magnet. Now oil the fretboard with fretboard oil.
- You can remove the sticker glue with a cloth moistened with benzine. Rub very softly and fro outside in, in order to keep the finish intact and to keep the glue spot as small as possible... if finish comes off, stop immediately and let the benzine evaporate! Perhaps the cloth was too wet! Or the finish is too sensitive! (If so, try the Martin Guitar Polish mentioned below, it's safer, but not specially for sticker glue, so you'll have to work longer).
- Put the guitar away and let the dry fretboard suck the oil for a day in order to repeat the oiling the next day.
- Now you can start with the smaller parts.
- First take the bridge and inspect it for splits, oil the wood with fretboard oil and oil the adjusting screws and wheels with silicon oil or sewing machine oil. Put it carefully away.
- Then take the tuners and give them a corrosion cleaning treatment with a modern metal cleaner, using the brush side of a nylon scouring pad and rinse it with water. Dry carefully for example with a hair dryer. Then oil the tuners with silicon oil or sewing machine oil and try them carefully in order to slowly loosen them without using too much strength and/or breaking the tuner knobs. If it's still too dry, add some of the above mentioned oil. Continue until all tuners are loosened.
Put each tuner back in the right place with the original screws.
- Clean the tailpiece with the same product as the tuners and put it away.
- Hang the guitar back on the wall and go to the guitar shop to get some extra light gage phosphor bronze strings. I would take a 010 set, or a 011 set, certainly not heavier, because of the old neck joint. Ask in the shop for some Martin Guitar Polish to give the body a nice safe cleaning and some shine.
- The next day you can oil the fretboard and bridge a second time, mount the tailpiece, put the bridge back on, put the new strings on as follows:
Hook each string in the tailpiece and cut it about 8 cm above its own tuner, that's all the string length you need. Now put them all on, starting in the middle (3 and for 4, then 2 and 5 and then 1 and 6), then put the bridge in place, slightly diagonal from bass to treble, so that the flageolet 12 on each string sounds the same as the fully pressed octave (12). Tune it EADGBE with help of a tuning pipe, or an electric guitar tuner, and hopefully your guitar is ready to be played.
Good luck,
Ginger Ale |
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