Peter Damm Guitarmaker
Repairs, Maintanance and Newly Created Musical Instruments
In this section you will find my work as a co-worker for the Robberts Guitars:
Levin Jazzguitarfull restoration
Classical guitar repairing damaged top
Robberts Solid Acoustic
Creating copy of Jackson model
Note: Only the interesting repairstories will be showed on this site
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Levin Jazzguitar
History 1998
These pictures were taken in the Robberts workshop where I was working at that time
Neck had a bad center crack and I had to remove the fretboard
to glue it back together again.
This neck had a T-bar truss-rod, so no adjustable truss-rod.
And scrape all the finish away.
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Classical guitar repairing damaged top
History 1999
These pictures were taken in the Robberts workshop where I was working at that time
This classical guitar had a big hole in the top.
I had to make it even bigger to fit in a nice piece.
With the newly fitted piece
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Robberts Solid Acoustic
These pictures were taken in the Robberts workshop where I was working at that time
Here in more detail:
planing the wood for the body
muliple layers of wood will form the body
the sound chambers
bandsawing the outer shape of the body
planing the front of the body in an arch
You need a lot of clamps to glue a piece of highy figured wood to an arched top
Shaping the neckjoint
Fitting the Mahogany neck to the Redwood body
Routing the shape of the headstock
headstock routed
Marking a center line onto the neck, for placement of truss-rod
Routing the truss-rod cavity
All done
Cutting the fret-slots in the hard, but willing Ebony
Gluing the fretboard
Truing up the sides of the neck
Gluing the headstock-veneer
chiseling and shaping the heel
Shaping the heel
Planing the back of the headstock to size
Planing the back of the headstock to size
Roughly shaping the back of the neck
Spraying a coat of finish
The beautiful highly figured redwood back of the guitar
Installing the pickups
Trying it out and make fine setup adjustments.
At The North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague with the
Robberts Brand Guitars I helped making
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Creating copy of Jackson model
History 2000 - 2001
These pictures were taken at the Robberts workshop where I was working at that time
Mahogany neck-blank and Ebony fretboard blank
Cutting the fret-slots in a special fixture.
Truing up the sides of the neck with fretboard glued in place, and the Lime or Basswood body laying in background.
