A lovely guitar, just has a couple of setup problems. The intonation on the B string wasn’t very good. The bridge saddle isn’t compensated, the top is rolled over in a straight line The neck relief was rather large. I don’t even need to measure it, I can see by eye there’s too much curve. […]
Tag: Bone Saddle
Martin – Bone nut and saddle
How does your guitar sound? One simple improvement is to replace the existing nut and saddle with bone ones… I’m a traditionalist and I really like traditional bone nuts and saddles. To make sure I get the size exactly right I need to get the action setup properly first. The neck was a little […]
Classical Acoustic – New Bridge Saddle and Nut
Got an old favourite that’s a little broken? This is a bit of an old clunker, but it’s probably got sentimental value to someone, so it can be fixed. Only having half a bridge saddle is one problem… and half a nut.. I’m going to make a new saddle from bone. Likewise the nut. The blanks are […]
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 […]