Update on the Healing Box Project Keith Urban Player Guitar

So, I've decided to go ahead and do a sleeper conversion on the Keith Urban guitar that I'm fixing up to donate to the Healing Box Project. While the paint on the guitar is really pretty, I had to put a new headstock on and patch up the couple of holes that were in the body. So the guitar doesn't look new anymore, obviously. BUT, I figured that I could at least make it sound better with a sleeper conversion. When I get done, this will be the most expensive Keith Urban Player guitar ever created. 

​Take a look at the pictures below. The top one is what I found when I opened up the Keith Urban Player guitar. The bottom one is what a sleeper conversion looks like. The bracing is optimized for tone on the sleeper conversion.

The Keith Urban guitar had a very crude scalloped bracing (which is at least something because a lot of times the braces are block braces). Something you can't see from the pictures is the bridge plate on the Keith Urban is plywood construction, not solid wood.

I'm not quite sure how the neck is attached to the body. Generally, there is a dovetail that holds the neck on the body and I can steam that off. Or on some models, they have a bolt on neck that I can take off. However, I've run into the case where a neck is held onto the body with dowel rods and there is not really a nice way of getting it off so that I can put it back together the way it was originally. With that lack of knowledge, I decided to try something new to open the guitar up and was very happy with how that turned out. 

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