This 1930 Washburn came in to the shop in need of a neck reset and a new bridge.
Here’s some photos and stuff about the repair:

The bridge was cracked and sanded too thin. They don’t make a replacement for this so I had to make a new one. Also the neck needed a reset and the bar frets had to be crowned.

Here it is all apart. The neck joint was very loose and crude, it had thick shims and was off centered.

This the shim I had to use to tighten up the dovetail and shift it over to center.

Dry-fit, perfectly centered and tight enough to restring without glue.

Glued and clamped.

The old bridge was way too thin and had a big crack in the saddle slot.
(I actually did the bridge first so I’d have something to measure for the reset).

Getting there..

Starting the inlay…

Inlays done, ready to glue it on the guitar…

Success!

My home-made saddle routing jig, looks funky but it works good.

I like these 1/8″ and 3/32″ spiral bits, they cut the cleanest slots.

I also crowned the bejeebers out of these flat, square bar frets.

Here’s the finished guitar, good as new!

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