THIS KAY'S WEBPAGES: II Page 1 II Page 2 II Page 3 II Page 4 II Page 5 II Page 6 II Page 7 II Page 8 II Page 9 II Page 10 II Page 11 II Page 12 II ~~~ Kay Silvertone 1417 ~~~ c.e. 1964 Page 8; Storing and Keeping Parts Together During Refurbishing a Guitar: This guitar's pages are IMAGE INTENSIVE; Please allow time for them to load; The images usually load in sequence faster than it takes to view the pics with interest. ------- oOo ------- |
The next step for this guitar is to remove and clean the parts one bag at a time. I will keep the parts separated, sorted and organized by putting them into empty clean food cans, particularly hand for those parts that need a penetrating oil soak in their can before scrubbing them down by hand with steel or brass wire brushes, or with a Dremel wire wheel where it's OK to do so. I put the cans organized on one or more shallow baking sheet-pans until the parts and guitar are all cleaned up, any repairs done, and ready for reassembly. Reassembly Pics start on Next Page >>>>> ------------ oOo ------------ Linked below are some actual work examples of keeping parts, tools and the work bench organized: (The text in the links below do not describe the subject of the link) Click Here to see other examples of my shop work. ------------ oOo ------------ |
This ST1417's Reassembly Pics start on Next Page >>>>> I dearly love to see an old guitar rejunvenated, brought back to bright life, and share how quite easy it is to do such work. This guitar will be every bit as good as those in the work links provided above. |
It is important to keep each and every part and screw kept with it's related assembly and keep related assemblies separate from each other; So that each part will go back into the exact position it came from. If this wasn't done then small parts like nuts, bolts, washers, screws, etc. will most likely wind up improperly in the wrong place. ~~~~~~~ I think that my documenting allot of the work I do also shows the very good technique of photographing periodic steps that can be looked back upon to make sure that assemblies go back together just like they originally were; As it is quite common to forget small details of exactly how some things were assembled when it comes time to reassemble a guitar, particularly if reassembly isn't done rather soon after disassembly and cleaning up and replacing parts that need to be and thus should be. Nowadays guitar parts outlets have an amazing assortment of most parts needed, and just about any reasonably well stocked hardware store will have very near the very same of most small parts needed; Although sometimes parts must be fabricated, ....and it's quite handy and good to have recorded a disassembly to refer back to; And also making good written notes during all work is invaluable to fixing and reassembling things properly. |
This ST1417's Reassembly Pics start on Next Page >>>>> I dearly love to see an old guitar rejunvenated, brought back to bright life, and share how quite easy it is to do such work. This guitar will be every bit as good as those in the work links provided above. |
Since assemblies should be stored together, it is important to wrap some parts so they don't get scarred by other parts stored together. |
Having an assortment of zip loc bags is invaluable, .....from gallon size right down to approximately 2" x 3". Here the vibrato cover is bagged all by itself, and will go into a quart size bag along with the rest of the vibrato assembly. Then each assembly's bag of it's individually bagged parts will all go into a master gallon size bag. Hardware and electronics stores often carry bags even bigger than gallon size; Or other containers can be used as master containers for all of the bagged assemblies. |
The assemblies bags are put into the master bag. Here I've clipped the top of the bag with a binder clip big / strong enough to securely support the master bag's weight. This will allow me to hang the bag of parts up, or attach it to the disassembled guitar. |
Here the master bag of parts is temporarily hung on a small strong 'J' hook to demonstrate the idea. Nothing gets lost and is not exposed to the elements. |
Here the bridge parts are temporarily put into one bag. But before bagging up all of the assemblies into the master bag, the hardware and wood bridge will be put in separate small bags so that the the harware does not come into abrasive contact with the wood. |
Here the pickguard screws and pickup ear screw are separately bagged and go into the pickguard / pickup assembly's bag. |
Here all the vibrato parts sets are bagged individually and put into the bag for the all the vibrato's bagged parts. |
The next step for this guitar is to remove and clean the parts one bag at a time. I will keep the parts separated, sorted and organized by putting them into empty clean food cans, particularly hand for those parts that need a penetrating oil soak in their can before scrubbing them down by hand with steel or brass wire brushes, or with a Dremel wire wheel where it's OK to do so. I put the cans organized on one or more shallow baking sheet-pans until the parts and guitar are all cleaned up, any repairs done, and ready for reassembly. Reassembly Pics start on Next Page >>>>> ------------ oOo ------------ Linked below are some actual work examples of keeping parts, tools and the work bench organized: (The text in the links below do not describe the subject of the link) Click Here to see other examples of my shop work. ------------ oOo ------------ |
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THIS KAY'S WEBPAGES: II Page 1 II Page 2 II Page 3 II Page 4 II Page 5 II Page 6 II Page 7 II Page 8 II Page 9 II Page 10 II Page 11 II Page 12 II ~~~ Kay Silvertone 1417 ~~~ c.e. 1964 Page 8; Storing and Keeping Parts Together During Refurbishing a Guitar: This guitar's pages are IMAGE INTENSIVE; Please allow time for them to load; The images usually load in sequence faster than it takes to view the pics with interest. ------- oOo ------- |
