Carvin CC275 finish issue or is it a bridge issue

Tori

Tori

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My Carvin Craig Chaquico CC275 has a weird look right now, I will add pix. I have a feeling I will get a lot of divergent opinions as advice but I am posting anyway cuz maybe I will hear one I never heard before or in the best possible scenario, hear from someone that has experience with the same thing on the same guitar. Or the same thing on a different or similar one.
The pix will show that there is a big section of the laquer or whatever the finish is that has separated from the guitar top around the bridge. It seems the bridge is still securely attached and the thing plays just fine. It is like a big bubble more than a quarter-inch high separation from the wood.
I don't know if I should just chip it off, maybe heat it with a hairdryer, hot rags, or what.
 

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Thatbastarddon said:
Just a guess, via my limited experience with acoustic guitar construction....this looks to be a finish vs bridge glue event. It looks like the bridge glue has out-gassed under the finish layers of the top.
No matter what.....looks like a bit of a bummer. :cry:

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Seems exactly to be the problem here, at least visibly speaking. I know that certain glues can off gas as well as nitrocellulose finishes can off gas very badly themselves. Dont know the finish coating here but possibly the two interacted badly over time
 
Clockworkmike said:
Seems exactly to be the problem here, at least visibly speaking. I know that certain glues can off gas as well as nitrocellulose finishes can off gas very badly themselves. Dont know the finish coating here but possibly the two interacted badly over time
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.....Plus....there’s no sign of belly pouching on the top(shots 4&5).
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Acoustic bridges can eventually in time, begin to separate from the body due to string tension. It happens unfortunately but its always very repairable by any luthier with basic common sense. Unless it begins to pull from the body? Id just ride it out. Refinishing it would be pretty pricey anyways, so as long as you can live with it? Go for it.
 
Clockworkmike said:
Acoustic bridges csn eventually in time, begin to separate from the body due to string tension. It happens unfortunately but its always very repairable by any luthier with basic common sense. Unless it begins to pull from the body? Id just ride it out. Refinishing it would be pretty pricey anyways, so as long as you can live with it? Go for it.
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The voice of reason^^^^^^^......right there.
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Clockworkmike said:
Lol myself definitely. Im like a way less talent Eddie Van Halen. Not in guitar playing skills by any stretch, but the whole trying to take a heap of crap and keep it going thru trial and error. Learned to get creative by keeping junker cars going on the road that i used to own lmao
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I like the cut of your jib sir! :rolf:
 
Tori said:
My Carvin Craig Chaquico CC275 has a weird look right now, I will add pix. I have a feeling I will get a lot of divergent opinions as advice but I am posting anyway cuz maybe I will hear one I never heard before or in the best possible scenario, hear from someone that has experience with the same thing on the same guitar. Or the same thing on a different or similar one.
The pix will show that there is a big section of the laquer or whatever the finish is that has separated from the guitar top around the bridge. It seems the bridge is still securely attached and the thing plays just fine. It is like a big bubble more than a quarter-inch high separation from the wood.
I don't know if I should just chip it off, maybe heat it with a hairdryer, hot rags, or what.
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