Cape Fear Luthiery

06/14/2023

Hand tooled, Deep body parlor guitar build. Zebrawood, western red cedar, mahogany.

05/16/2023

Bridge regluing

05/10/2023

C Bruno and Son Parlor guitar. Circa 1900

Will be repairing this well played, New York made parlor guitar. In the link are more photos and an 1890 advertisement for this guitar.

C. Bruno and Sons parlor Guitar. Mahogany back and sides, spruce top, and bar frets. Ladder braced, needs a neck reset, bridge plate and a few more braces for stability and to fix where it's bellied and sinking. I found this old ad for this model from 1890ish.

05/10/2023

Updates on the prewar Jupiter - I glued it back together, fixing the splits and added a liberal amount of narrow cleats and glue along the sides. There's some glue staining on the inside, from myself and from the many previous repairs. It's staying. CA glue was used to help stabilize the wood around...