Replacement Acoustic Bridge Saddle

An interesting problem, it came with no bridge saddle.  The trouble there is not having a starting point with the setup.  However, got to start somewhere, so a bone blank.  Cut if first to roughly the right length. It’s also a little thick so it needs sanding down a little… So there’s the staring point. […]

Vintage Acoustic – Fret Dress and Setup

Now there’s a great looking guitar.  A real nod the 1960’s. I quite like Vintage guitars, they’re normally quite well made guitars but this one isn’t so good….. It’s got some very uneven frets. To really lift the tone I’m also going to replace the plastic bridge saddle with a bone one. Along with a […]

Classical Acoustic – New Nut and Saddle

This needs a little TLC if it’s going to play again.  The bridge saddle is badly damaged so I’m going to make a new one. The nut’s broken as well, so that’ll need to be replaced as well. First the nut.  From a bone blank. Next the saddle, using the old one as guide. One […]

Martin – Bone Saddle and Setup

A nicely put together guitar… just a rather high playing action…. Looking at the neck I think it had a little too much set in it as well. so the first thing I did was to bring that down. The only way to reduce the action is to take a little off the bottom of […]