Had to share this YouTube vid I stumbled across; I won't post it 'cause it's 27 minutes long.
It shows a very industrious young man restoring a trashed cheap guitar as best he can. When I hit the part where he fills a hole in the top with a mixture of crushed ramen noodles and epoxy, I realized it needed to be shared.
If any luthiers out there try this technique please let us all know how you feel it works, and how your repair clients react to it. I'd recommend the ramen-noodle technique only for Asian-made instruments; Italian bowl-backs probably work better with crushed rotini.
He also reinstalls the tuners backwards, but hey, he's just learning...
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