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I recently started free guitar restringing and cleaning maintenance service to my local community as a voluntary activity during COVID-19 stay-at-home period. I ask people to bring in a set of strings or they can buy one from my stock at the pure cost, but I am not charging for anything other than that including fret leveling, fingerboard cleaning, body polishing, etc. I also fix broken guitar if that's something I can take care of in my limited skills as a weekend luthier.
Why I started this? I had been thinking if there is anything I can do to my local community to make people a little happier during restricted stay-at-home life due to the COVID-19. Then I suddenly thought, there may be some people who thought about start playing guitar again during they are at home nothing else to do. You went to your storage, found a dusty guitar case, opened it, and found the guitar was dirty, greasy, the strings got all rusty and lost their tension many years ago, or maybe it's cracked or broken. You had to close the case, feeling so sad. If there are people really like that, I would like to rescue. I am just a weekend luthier, but I should be able to do some minimum things to bring those guitars back to life so that people will be able to restart.
Then I posted an article to my local community that I will provide guitar restring, cleaning and maintenance service for free as a volunteer during COVID-19, then as I expected, I got some responses! So the Epiphone Hummingbird Pro in this video is one of those guitars. Actually it has been played for a year but never got restrung since the owner purchased it. So at least a year old, but by the look, I think it's 2-year or older.
Hove you heard the sound of those stretched out steel strings? I thought it will be interesting to compare those old strings and a new set of strings. Also, I thought people maybe interested in the maintenance activities I am going to do with guitar (fret leveling and polishing, fingerboard cleaning, cleaning and polishing of the guitar body and the neck, etc. I am also introducing how to measure the soundboard thickness (not as a part of maintenance but just for curiosity). Those reviews are based on my weekend luthier point of view.
In my opinion, this guitar is a good buy for a $400 range acoustic guitar in many reasons. Please watch the video for details.