Restoration of a 1927 Martin OOO-18 Guitar

Here is the beginning of a new restoration project. This one is on a Martin OOO-18 that was built in 1927. The guitar has been neglected for many years and has many cracks in the top, back and sides, but for being almost a hundred years old and not even stored in a case, it is in pretty good shape.
This will be another multi-part series of videos showing all of the steps we went through to restore this instrument to playability. In this segment, we introduce the guitar and discuss some of the obvious issues that will need to be addressed. Future segments will go into details on crack repairs, neck resetting, installation of bar frets, building a replacement bridge, and several other details.
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[@5barkerstreet]

this guitar going to be a good job to watch

[@zimnickiguitars311]

Thanks, I hope so.

[@billdedrick1914]

In 1927 in the 000 series, Martin made only a 000-18 000-28 and a 000-45. They made 201 000-18, 44 000-28 and 20 000-45 in 1927..The 000-18 of course was the only one with Mahogany back and sides. It appears that a neck reset will be required here even though some of it is resulting from the body deformation from string tension for decades and decades.

[@zimnickiguitars311]

Yes, it did end up getting a neck reset. That will be in a future episode.