Jerry Garcia Stratishcaster

Ouch... isn't it hard to look at such a sweet vintage guitar with so much going wrong?
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Dan had this sweet little Gibson L-00 come in that needs a ton of work. He's trying to rescue it.
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Dan's diagnosis is (among other things) someone hacked at the back of it with a letter opener. 😦
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One of the things he had to do was fix a split back brace way in the back of the guitar.
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Here's a little show and tell of how he clamped it up:
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[Step 1] Place a waxed-off a brace-shaped caul on the brace to press the crack shut . . . and make a “scissor-jack platform” for the top that spans the two angled “tone bars” in the area directly over the split brace and lower the jack onto the caul.
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On the caul, the middle piece of wood is shorter than the outer two by the approximate thickness of the magnet - you want the magnet to be as close as possible to the top of the guitar without being pressed against it.
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[Step 2] With a flat caul on the top, add a little pressure with a cam clamp — the two mini-cam clamps at the edges of the top are clamping a flat caul across the back where the brace is for extra, even, pressure.
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[Step 3] Next punch a hole in the side to make applying the glue easier, cleanup easier, and so you can slide a soundhole clamp through and get the very end of the brace clamped tight. 😜
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[Step  4] . . . just kidding — the hole was already there, Dan just took full advantage of it!
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Correction on Date of Nudie suit pictures.
Actually is Winterland Dec 10 - 12th run.
For Contrast, Alligator was played on the 10th and the Erlewine Strat was played on the 11th and 12th. December 10th was Alligator Version 4.0 with the new Alembic Brass Bridge, Sustainer Block and Tailpiece.
Nudie suits were also worn on the Feb 19 and March 19th 1973 shows.

1972 shows have a single mic for each singer. In 1973 the Dual Mics were being used already.

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Have you ever struggled to jig up to cut an angled saddle slot in an acoustic bridge, or struggled with cutting the binding channels on a mandolin peghead? If so, check this out...
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We took our super popular Precision Router Base for Dremel and made it tilt-able. With a simple adjustment you can precisely route any angle you choose.
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Fun, right?
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This too will be out shortly and we also have an adapter plate for our saddle routing jig that holds the cutter in the opposite orientation.
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The 1970 built Dan Erlewine Strat custom ordered by Jerry and played in 1972. Dan is a Luthier that has a rather giant Luthier retail shop online called stewmac.com. You can check out his video about it over there as well as get a quality switch for an OBEL or whole strat kit! I think this Custom Erlewine may have been given to Hunter as he is seen playing it later on.
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A quote from Dan about from The Les Paul Forum. "Yeah, I built Jerry a guitar around 1970ish? It was a black walnut bodied Strat with a maple neck. I was into "wood" so it had a rosewood pickguard and other "woody" thinks at the time. I have an 8mm movie of me delivering it to him in the mountains of St. Helena, CA where my wife's uncle owns a ranch. We visited when my oldest daughter was a baby. I charged $500 and Jerry gave me $900!

The guitar wasn't worth it! It was OK, but not compared to custom instruments that luthiers are building today. I ma(d)e the neck with maple laminations running at right angles to the fretboard. It made for a weird neck, I'll tell you because since it was a "maple neck" and had no fretboard the playing surface showed glue joints! I was always a little disatisfied with that. I thought it would have "killer" tone and strength because it was maple out of an ancient piano that I tore apart.

It had a stop-bar and tune-o-matic also (Jerry wanted that. . . it also had the num(b)ers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 , 12, inlayed in large rosewood numerals at those respective frets. Just a crazy hippie-idea of mine.

It also had a brass nut - the very first brass nut that I had ever been asked to make.

I have a pic of Jerry with it if you want to see it.

thanks, Dan

PS: I ran into a young fellow at the GAL Convention in Tacoma perhaps 6 years ago, and his father ended up with that guitar, and then gave it to him. He was pleased to meet me, and I was pleased that he did NOT have the guitar in hand (with all my building and repair buddies around (500 of them)." #waldotronics #jerrygarciatonenerd
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Burled veneer's look AMAZING under finish on headstocks, pick guards and lots of other appointments, but one of the problems of working with sheets of veneer is they often get wavy and warpy making them crack, split and bubble if you try to glue them dry to a flat substrate.
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Here's a simple trick to get even the most stubborn sheets under control so they lay nice and flat and glue up with out any problem
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1) Cut the a piece roughly to size with a veneer saw or a straight edge and an Exacto knife.
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2) Wet both sides of the piece
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3) Clamp the piece between two flat cauls, and let it dry completely (overnight is good)
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4) The next day the veneer should much flatter and easy to glue up
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Thanks Dan!
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Gifts from a good friend I met in Athens-OH. curlymaplewood Thomas Bennett. He gave me this beautiful Koa wood plate turned in his shop, where I went a lot of times while I was working with monsterfret Dan Erlewine for 3 yeas during the Winter and Spring seasons. Because of him I have built some particulars and special projects with Koa top on them. I learned so much from him and his fabulous shop. Many Thanks my friend! 🇺🇸🇧🇷🎸🌉🗜

Enquanto estive trabalhando com Dan Erlewine, conheci um cara fenomenal, Thomas Bennett, fui em@sua oficina varias vezes e sempre aprendi muito com ele. E ele me deu esse lindo prato de Koa feito em seu torno. Além de ter me oferecido umas Koa que fiz lindos projetos de guitarras. Muito Obrigado meu amigo. #koa #bow #woodturning #woodworking #woodworker #tonewood #friends #friendship #woods #handmade #handmadejewelry #gift #present #tool #tools #guitarshop #woodshop #danerlewine ...