Jasmine Repair 101

There's a beam that runs from the bridge

(at about a 7 o' clock angle) to the

lower left side, where

it has become detached from the

wood there, causing a change in tone

and an annoying buzz -something I have been

meaning to repair for some time now... 

I didn't blog yesterday, because I was on a well planned mission, which went off with hardly a hitch.

I got my morning energy drink, along with a tangerine and some grapes from Save-A-Lot.

I then headed west on Government Street, stopping at the recycling place to look through the bins for crossword puzzles out of old newspapers, National Geographic and Popular Science and issues of The New Yorker and such.

I had no such luck but DID find a couple of Rolling Stone Magazines; one with Steven Tyler on the cover, the other with Lady Gaga on the cover. I grabbed them in exactly that order, and read all about Steven Tyler while waiting on the bus which would take me to the Mobile Guitar Center and nearby the Lowes, where I would buy a tube of Liquid Nails construction adhesive in order to repair the damage to the Jasmine guitar where one of the beams inside has become detached from the ribbon of wood which runs along the inside perimeter of the thing, causing a buzzing sound which has become more annoying to me as I have delved into recording and equalizing the guitar.

It seems that I am going to have to cut the tube of adhesive open and then glob it on the fingers of one of my hands and then, barely squeezing my arm through the sound hole, paste it all around the affected pieces of wood which I can just barely reach with my fingertips; and then press and hold the thing in place, hoping the electrical tape that is over the damaged wood will function as a mold for the adhesive.

I figure that I don't have much to lose through the process as I can't imagine the wood top vibrating MORE with a glob of adhesive attached to it, even if it fails to fuse the wood together.

While in Guitar Center, I played a Fender acoustic with a $164 price tag on it which sounded so good that it would make this all a mute point as soon as I strike gold somewhere, either at the State Fair today or, there, combined with Halloween in New Orleans.

Sounding good is a top priority for a busker, because sounding mediocre can only be worked around with things like trained monkeys to take peoples tips; or the engaging of people in conversation, in hope of making them like you; as much, if not more than actually playing.