You are pretty amazing, my friend! I found a 1965 Harmony H-162 at a thrift shop for $35 bucks today. It is in excellent condition with almost no blemishes on the body or headstock. After watching you work, I can appreciate the condition of the beauty I purchased today. I'm sure I can sell it and make some money, but this one is going in my collection...right next to my vintage Lotus Les Paul tribute guitar. I have been pretty fortunate finding guitars at thrift stores, but I have to say that this is one of my better finds because of the condition that it's in. Your restoration of this guitar makes me appreciate the purchase I made even more! Good stuff!
@@MarshallSetUps Thank you, sir. For some reason, I've been super lucky finding vintage guitar. I've been wanting a Harmony for a while and now I have a sweet one! Yes, I've been lucky, but I think that outside what I plan on passing down to my son, I might begin to offload some these sweet guitars into new homes at some point. I think that guitars are one of those things that need to travel and find itself in different homes and giving itself to new people from time to time. I have always believed that guitars have a life of their own, and like us, they need to spread far and wide whenever possible! I will enjoy this Harmony for a while and then we'll see where it goes! Thanks again, friend.
I believe on this one I used Ronsonol lighter fluid. I tried it in an inconspicuous location to make sure it didn't harm the finish, but removed the ink. 🤘
Dunno whether it would help for that old beauty but have had good results in the past just replacing the saddle piece on old acoustics with pretty much generic compensated saddles (sure you thought of this anyway ;) ) Another thing that may be useful is, if I have a difficult to access nut internal to whatever I'm working on, if you have enough material behind then use a Tee nut with a drop of CA to help it stay and you create a really easy to remove and metal threaded connection. (eg www.homedepot.com/s/tee%2520nut?NCNI-5 ) Hope that made sense. Cheers brother. ✌ ps, I got small hands too, but long fingers ;p
Thank you Mark. There were details with regard to exactly all I could do. I felt keeping the original saddle, and finish was something the owner appreciated. I offered her your exact option in a future set up. We'll see if she likes it.
You are pretty amazing, my friend! I found a 1965 Harmony H-162 at a thrift shop for $35 bucks today. It is in excellent condition with almost no blemishes on the body or headstock. After watching you work, I can appreciate the condition of the beauty I purchased today. I'm sure I can sell it and make some money, but this one is going in my collection...right next to my vintage Lotus Les Paul tribute guitar. I have been pretty fortunate finding guitars at thrift stores, but I have to say that this is one of my better finds because of the condition that it's in. Your restoration of this guitar makes me appreciate the purchase I made even more! Good stuff!
I love reading this kind of comment. Vintage guitars are very sentimental to me. Keep finding the good ones!
@@MarshallSetUps Thank you, sir. For some reason, I've been super lucky finding vintage guitar. I've been wanting a Harmony for a while and now I have a sweet one! Yes, I've been lucky, but I think that outside what I plan on passing down to my son, I might begin to offload some these sweet guitars into new homes at some point. I think that guitars are one of those things that need to travel and find itself in different homes and giving itself to new people from time to time. I have always believed that guitars have a life of their own, and like us, they need to spread far and wide whenever possible! I will enjoy this Harmony for a while and then we'll see where it goes! Thanks again, friend.
Hi what did you clean the marker off with? It looks really nice. It looks like it took some scuffs away as well.
I believe on this one I used Ronsonol lighter fluid. I tried it in an inconspicuous location to make sure it didn't harm the finish, but removed the ink. 🤘
@@MarshallSetUps I wish I had seen you do that.
Dunno whether it would help for that old beauty but have had good results in the past just replacing the saddle piece on old acoustics with pretty much generic compensated saddles (sure you thought of this anyway ;) )
Another thing that may be useful is, if I have a difficult to access nut internal to whatever I'm working on, if you have enough material behind then use a Tee nut with a drop of CA to help it stay and you create a really easy to remove and metal threaded connection. (eg www.homedepot.com/s/tee%2520nut?NCNI-5 )
Hope that made sense.
Cheers brother. ✌
ps, I got small hands too, but long fingers ;p
Thank you Mark. There were details with regard to exactly all I could do. I felt keeping the original saddle, and finish was something the owner appreciated. I offered her your exact option in a future set up. We'll see if she likes it.