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Monday, February 24, 2014

Leslies Lovely Levin

This Is Lesile Rich's Levin guitar. Lesile is one of the kingpins of  the continentially acclaimed   Groove City Guitars 
in St Paul Mn. These guitars were made in Sweden in the same factory as Goya, purchased by Martin guitars and produced guitars until 1977


The neck need to rest which one would expect to find in a guitar of this vintage so the first hurdle was to manufacture a tool to remove the odd square head bolts
I've got a complete metal shop with a couple of milling machines so this wasn't much of a problem
All done !!!
Next remove the neck. the heel is bolted on but the "tongue" of the fingerboard is glued.
Carefully loosing the glue
And after removing the neck and trimming the heel a nice tight fit.




The purfling ring had becomed detatched so I cut some spruce to act as a backing

Clamping the srtips in place. Next time we'll show the custom electronics install






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