I have now finished repairing and tidying up this old classical. It has a nice tone and sounds much better with a saddle than it did without one. The soundboard looks much nicer with the scratched lacquer removed, I have coated the soundboard with beeswax to protect it from the various acids and other stuff found on human hands.
That is all the pictures there are of this guitar. The bridge was okay once glued into place, the back edge as can be seen in the above picture has a 0.5mm gap between the bridge and the soundboard but it only goes into the glued joint for less than 1mm.
This is without doubt a rather interesting guitar, made in a period (1960’s) when the words ‘Made in Japan’ were often taken as meaning ‘it must be crap’. The guitar looks okay and it plays really well with a nice sound.