Roca

This is a classical guitar made in Spain by Alejandro Roca, possibly in the 1970’s – our only clue to it’s age is the telephone number on the label! We don’t know very much about this guitar but it has a sapele neck, back & ribs with a spruce soundboard.

It came to us in a state of neglect – there were various splits in the soundboard, loose soundboard/rib joints, missing tuner knobs but most importantly a large dent in the middle of the back, as you can see in the pictures.

Initially this dry old guitar spent several weeks in the workshop, re-hydrating. This resulted in many of the splits closing up. These were reglued, and work commenced pushing the dent into position using jacks from within the body, gluing into place. A small hole in the back was filled with a sliver of sapele.

To finish, the back was scraped flat & lacquered.

The guitar was provided with some replacement tuner pegs, stained to match the originals and a new bone nut & saddle. It is now playing again and is a useful member of the family.