This was a special repair as it was my girlfriend's Ella family guitar that all of the children learned to play guitar on. Unfortunately, the neck had broken into the body and needed to be removed and reset to playable shape, along with cleaning, detailing, setup and new strings. Its unique in its construction as it utilized a bolt on neck and a floating fretboard extension.
Open headstock, classical peg tuner style
You can see the grooves from fingernails and years of playing. This instrument is a generational one and has been passed down from father to daughter and will be passed down to her children.
Various pieces remaining from the break all of which need to be put back into the guitar.
The bridge utilizes a piece of fret wire for the saddle. It had become pitted and oxidized from time so I sanded, buffed and polished it.
Lots of clamping to repair and reseat the neck block which was partially broken and required fully breaking to be able to fix it properly.
I replaced the missing piece from the top...
and put two cleat underneath to make sure that it had plenty of structural stability
