Do the Twist...repair advice.

[Jennings]

And here's a quick shot now the nitro's dry. The two filled areas on the bottom of the headstock are from two terrible old screw holes for a non-original nut. They're largely going to be concealed when I fit the new nut I've made from an aluminium right angle section. I'll leave it to harden for a bit, then fit everything.

[Jennings]

The nitro's fairly well dried actually...helped by the warmer weather. Although the it will require the usual final buffing, I'll leave that for later in the year whilst the nitro cure progresses. So in the meantime I've assembled the guitar for final fit etc. Originally she'd have had a hard wired jack lead, but I opted to fit a barrel jack to allow for using normal modern jack leads. The body is thin and contoured, so I had to cut and file a standard jack plate to size/shape. I quite like the resulting look. My Selmer has the jack mounting on the other side to the examples I've seen on the web, and the body and headstock contours look slightly different too. As mentioned I also made a new nut from scratch as the original was long gone. I also opted for Wilkinson 3-in-a-row Kluson style tuners...reliable, classy looks, and the long 3-a-side plates could help headstock stability a little. She's a good looking lady for a circa 68 year old...just needs a string up and she's ready to play! Thanks to everyone who's helped with advice, parts, suggestions, encouragement etc. I just need to source a suitable case to keep her safe now. I'm tempted to do up the plain home made ply box case she came in, as I have foam, felt and tolex to hand, but there might not be enough internal clearance for decent foam/felt lining. It's also not exactly rugged! The hinge is partly plastic, but I'm sure I have a length of piano hinge in the shed I could replace it with. I could get a gun case and cut the foam to fit...although I think she deserves something a little more classy? For now she fits well in a Hofner Shorty travel guitar gig bag as it happens.

[nevada150]

You've done a fantastic job of bringing the guitar back to full playability. It also looks great and I hope you get a lot of pleasure from it.
Keith.

[Jennings]

Thanks Keith...it's been a really rewarding project for me. Not least giving me the chance to practice some new skills, but also the satisfaction of giving a new lease of life to an instrument that will hopefully last for other generations to come.