Stage 1: Almost complete!

When I first received this guitar it had several ‘issues’, the least of which was it needed a cleaning. Over the break my goals are 3 fold: 1) build a new floating bridge; 2) look for a pickguard; 3) restore the face of the body because it is cracked x3 and the structural integrity of the face was reinforced with duct tape and glue.

Today I finished both the prototype (Pine) and final product (Birch). The problem was that I guessed wrong on the original type of wood used. The website I found suggested Birch. This is too soft for a bridge. Now that I have a good blueprint I just need to find some harder wood. I think I am going to go with either Ebony or White Oak. I have no idea what type of wood was used in the 1950s.