Today another guitar came to the workshop.
In this occasion it's a "Antigua Casa Nuñez" very traditional guitar builders from the late XXth century in Argentina.
Though the first ones were well built with true craftsmanship, later ones were losing the art and craft and became cheaper and cheaper, until the owners sold the industry and was acquired by "Gracia" (very popular nowadays but not so good)
This is the reason why most folk confuse the brand and think it is synonym of quality. I've seen good "Antigua Casa Nuñez" and really bad ones that were just old.
So this is the middle way. It's kind of well built in it's structural quality and wood-wise. But begining to sin in fiat debtism paradigm, I mean losing its gold standard, so you can see:
1- A fucking plastic bridge that will never glue to a top but it has two bolts and nuts.
2-plywood back and sides
3-no god-damned braces on the top
4-how on earth is the neck attached to the body, no one knows, but it is loose. (Will find out soon)
On the bright side:
1- top is solid wood spruce (thank God)
2 - an ugly rosette but at least it is not a sticker.
3- at least, the few braces it has, are correct.
4- I've seen worse, much worse
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