1975 Giannini AWN20 3/4-Size Classical Guitar

This is a simpler, student-grade, Brazil-made Giannini with a shorter-than-normal scale length and slightly-reduced body size compared to a normal classical. It's compact and cozy, durable due to all-ply construction in the body, and a good looker with Brazilian rosewood veneer for the back and sides. The red trim on the top looks great, too.

The owner is a local and this wound-up getting a ridiculous amount of work -- a neck reset, fret level/dress, side dots fit, a bridge reglue, cleaning, and setup work. It's strung with hard tension strings to help with the short scale "slack" feeling as the owner intends to keep it tuned E to E, as I recall, rather than tuned-up higher than normal (as one might do with a "terz" scale classical).

The damage around the bridge area is due to the veneer pulling-up when the bridge originally had started coming loose over time. When we reglue bridges on these ply-top instruments with damage like this (Yamahas from the '60s and '70s included), our standard practice is to wick epoxy in and under all of those layers and then, as the bridge is clamping, have it all smoosh together and set. This is the best way I've found of dealing with veneer-pull on ply-top guitars around the bridge (which is very common and discourages many from bridge reglue jobs on them). Cleanup is pretty easy if you catch it all before it starts hardening.

Jose and Jacobi were responsible for getting this one back to rights after I gave it a neck reset.