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Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:24 am
by ABAKUA
A friend of mine, Nadya who is an avid fan of Afro Cuban music & culture recently approached me to see if I would take on the repair and restoration of the guiro's she brought back from Cuba on one of her many study trips to the island.
Nadya often drops by live gigs & jams with several bands and is allowed to sit in on guiro or clave if there is not already a person allocated that instrument.
She uses a small gourd which is not very loud, when she realised that I grow and have carved and repaired many guiro's and chekere, she informed me she had 2 larger ones at her house which she had since retired to the shelves due to cracks and damage sustained in transit and over the years...

I took on the 2 gourd project, not only repairing the cracks, but giving them a full restoration and overhaul... Below are the pics...

Comments welcomed :)

Click on the picture for full size image.

Enjoy!

Ive enjoyed repairing many instruments lately, these guiros presented a challenge.
Welding and bending bells back into shape and painting them was easy, I enjoyed the challenge of these gourds and am very happy witht he finished result, I return them to Nadya tommorrow night at an afrocuban/latin jazz jam night I am playing at.

Re: Guiro repair, restoration & overhaul - 56K beware!

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:12 pm
by ABAKUA
few more shots........

Re: Guiro repair, restoration & overhaul - 56K beware!

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:33 pm
by ABAKUA
and some more.....

Re: Guiro repair, restoration & overhaul - 56K beware!

PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:03 pm
by ABAKUA
and a few more....

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:47 am
by seisporocho1
great job Abakua!

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 6:19 am
by bongosnotbombs
Nice stuff there for sure! Good work bringing those
guiros back to life!

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:45 pm
by CongaTick
Your attention to detail and craftsmanship say so much about your approach and view of your passion for the music and everything connected with it. Thanks for the great pix sequence you so often provide us. .

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:00 pm
by ABAKUA
Thankyou for the positive comments guys, I returned the guiros to Nadya tonight, she was blown away with the finished result!!!

CongaTick wrote:Your attention to detail and craftsmanship say so much about your approach and view of your passion for the music and everything connected with it. Thanks for the great pix sequence you so often provide us. .



Thankyou! Im glad you dug it brother.
I actually reposted the thread on the step by step process of carving up a guiro... I think you might like it. I posted it up last night, check it out here:

http://www.mycongaplace.com/forum/eng/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4884





Enjoy! :)

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:58 am
by KING CONGA
Marcelo great job on those restoration projects. What did you use to bond them back together?

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:11 am
by ABAKUA
KING CONGA wrote:Marcelo great job on those restoration projects. What did you use to bond them back together?


Gracias bro.
I first used a very strong liquid glue for wood, and added the compression via masking tape.
Once dried, I used a clear 2 part epoxy resin glue for wood. Very strong bonding, with a gel like dried finish, leaving a clear rubber like finish over the top. Its flexible but super strong.
Then over the top of this I applied 4 layers of exterior application wood clear. (Internals were only coated twice)

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:32 am
by yambu321
NOW THIS IS AN EXCELLENT POSTING.

ABAKUA, GREAT WORK BRO!
IT'S A PLEASURE TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE SUCH A HIGH LEVEL OF SKILL IN YOUR WORKMANSHIP!

NICE!

CHARLIE. 8)

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:43 am
by ABAKUA
Gracias Charlie. :)
Did you get a chance to check out my other thread on how I made my guiro's? Its in the "Other Instruments" forum.

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:04 pm
by slinginit
Very nice work! I like that you're bringing these instruments back to life! :)

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 11:10 pm
by Thebreeze
Excellent work ABAKUA ! Hard to believe that they are the same Guiros. They need to send you over to Egypt so you can help restore some of those messed up Mummies they pull from those Tombs. Great work.

Re: Guiro repair & restoration customer Project- 56K beware!

PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 7:10 am
by TomLee
Truly nice creativity ! Really you are blessed with extraordinary skills that make everyone to praise you !Keep it up man !!!