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Mid-late nineteenth-century parlor guitar with ice cream cone heel and mustache bridge. The tuning machines are currently mounted backwards, perhaps explaining why they aren't of the reverse-gear type.
#guitar #parlorguitar #stringedinstruments #lutherie #nineteenthcenturymusic #classicalguitar

Correction: I did not include picture showing old lead under shaft. Just new setting compound and setting cushions on top of shaft.

Marble pedestal monument in Christ Church Cemetery in Andover Mass. From the shop of Alpheus Cary (1788-1869). After we had lifted shaft into blocking. Note the old lead that runs along perimeter of base along with setting cushions
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Marble pedestal monument in Christ Church Cemetery in Andover Mass. From the shop of Alpheus Cary (1788-1869). It had become displaced so we needed to partially disassemble it and lift the shaft to realign the lower elements.
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Mr. John Lackey d. 1792. Westborough Memorial Cemetery, Westborough Mass. This stone required a slate backer to be securely repaired.
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Unknown burial at The Old Burying Ground in Cambridge Mass. This large slab or 'wolf stone' was found laying flat, about 4" below grade between the head and foot stones.
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The Old Burying Ground in Cambridge, Mass. Phillip Cook. d. March 25, 1717/18

Working in The Old Burying Ground in Cambridge, Mass this week. #cemetery #buryingground #churchyard #stonecarving

Tomb marker in floor of Mezquita, Cordoba, Spain.
#gravestone, #stonecarving, #tomb

Strange one here. Contreras "Guitarreria" label from late c. 60s. But poorly constructed. I removed some kind of mahogany veneer from the headstock (which was over the original rosewood veneer). French polishing the top now. It really could use a neck reset but having fun with it.

Gravestone of Joseph Tapping, 1678, at the King’s Chapel Burying Ground in Boston. Carved by the “Old Stone Cutter,” who may have been Elias Grice.

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My great grandmother's Martin Guitar with original coffin case. 1-21 model. 1889. Enjoy! I know I do.

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Caleb Taft (student) d. 1756. Old Burying Ground, Cambridge MA. Carver: Nathaniel or Caleb Lamson.
Repaired 2024. Left part of face blind pinned in place. St. Astier Lithomex infill.

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No doubt the best online source of information on antique and vintage Martin guitars. Incredible photographs as well.
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Tabby Holt, d. 1849 slate. In the closeup pic, if you zoom in on the upper part of the soiled section of the stone you can see stray marks (6:9). Likely price in dollars:cents.
Second Burial Ground, North Andover MA. Carved by B. Day (Lowell)
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Samuel Wheeler d. 1734
Westlawn Cemetery, Littleton MA. Appears to be carved by Jonathan Worster. This just needed a clean and reset. (2017)

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Henry Magee. Christ Church Cemetery, Andover MA (1860). The stone was in three pieces, with the bottom piece still firmly in the sandstone base slot. Blind pinned, and infilled with Lithomex 'marble'. 2018

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Trespass they had not fully realized their 'thing'. The next 4 albums after are their peak with core lineup (nursery cryme, foxtrot, selling England, lamb lies down on Broadway). This is when Phil Collins was simply the drummer, and to many one of the best ever. The first two albums after peter too!

Here's a old parlor guitar. I got off eBay in 2019. It was badly painted black, needed a front job, needed the bridge remounted, and once the paint was off I French polished it over a couple months. Not sure the pictures will be in order..
#lutherie #parlorguitar #restoration

More progress on the 19th century parlor guitar. I finished the new ebony nut. The things actually playable now. After I put the strings back on there was some buzzing on the third string first fret, so I needed to file down the second fret a little bit. Now all good!

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Stunning. I used to own Tern #24. Wilbur Morse c. 1900.

The broken marble in the foreground is a good candidate for blind pinning, much as what was done with the marble in the background which is also gleaming white after multiple treatments of D2 Biological Solution. Second Burying Ground, North Andover MA 2019.

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Two large slate headstones laid out for cleaning. From when I was working with Fannin-Lehner Preservation Consultants. High Street Cemetery, Hingham, MA 2019.
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Stray marks deep on the tail of an eighteenth-century slate headstone. Maker's mark perhaps, or just stray marks. Old Indian Burial Ground, West Brookfield MA 2018.
#gravestone, #cemetery #stoneconservation #stonecarving

Gart Memorial at Phillips Academy Cemetery (2018). Granite. This picture shows contrast between left side (treated with D2 biological solution) and right side (pre treatment).
#cemetery #stoneconservation #conservation #stonecarving

A.W. (in process) Liberty Plain Cemetery, Hingham, MA 2017

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Abigail Sprague (in process). High Plain Cemetery, Hingham MA 2017
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Davis Whiting obelisk. High Plain Cemetery, Hingham, MA 2017.
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