As it was a little quiet last week I did a little more on the Spanish. I’ve put some fret markers on the side of the fretboard. Using the pillar drill to drill the holes. The markers come as a long thin plastic rod. Glue the end into the holes… and cut it just slightly […]
Tag: Acoustic Guitar
Custom Built Spanish 5th Update
I don’t seem to get much time to work on this one, but it’s been a little quiet this week so I’ve finished off the bridge. The 2 white strips are bone so that the strings don’t cut into the wood when they are tied on. I’ve still got to cut the saddle for the […]
Fender Sonoran fret dress and setup
These are great little guitars. This one is brand new but the owner want’s to see what I can do to improve it. Since there isn’t really anything wrong with it I guess the devil is in the detail as they say. The neck has slightly too much set in it so that’ll be easy […]
Epiphone Setup
A good-looking guitar. Nothing much wrong with it, just needs a few slight adjustments to get the setup right. Before doing anything else I took the old strings off and gave the fret-board a good clean. With the new strings in place I could properly assess the action. Unusually the fret-board was a little flat, nine […]
Baby Taylor – High Action
These are great little guitars, unfortunately some of them come out of the shop with a very high playing action. A fairly easy job to put right though… Starting at the top, with the action height at the first fret. This one was OK, otherwise it’s a simple job to cut the slots in the nut […]
Encore Acoustic setup
As a cheaper guitars go these Encores are not bad. This one just needs a bit of a clean and setup. The action at the first fret is OK…. but the set in the neck is huge, you could drive a coach and horses under there!! The action at the 12th fret is also huge. […]
Framus
Now and again something really nice comes across the bench. This week it was an old Framus. There was nothing really wrong with it, it just needed a good clean and polish. I don’t know when it was built but I could picture it in the hands of a very young John Lennon….
More Smoke Damage
This one is the twin to the one I did yesterday. Was in the same place as the Bass so has the same sooty smoke damage. Did exactly the same, pulled everything off and stripped it down as far as I could to clean and polish everything before putting it all back together. As before […]
Smoke damaged Acoustic Bass
I seem to have the set, a water damaged Rickenbacker last week now a smoke damaged acoustic bass this week! The light patch is where I’ve wiped away the soot. You can see the grubby marks on the top as well. I started at the top, it wasn’t easy to clean around the machine heads so […]
Lets try that again….
That Taylor…. It really is a stunning piece of wood… As much as it’s a really nice guitar the owner wasn’t 100% happy with it, it was just choking out a little on the Bass E string, around the 2nd and 3rd fret. I had a look at the setup and the neck had a […]