in the past week, i have been given a Jazzmaster, a classical, and an acoustic to fix up/set up, cure neck issues.
Why is that interesting?
Jazzmaster - never worked on one before. Not difficult to understand, not unlike a gibby with a bigsby, but the added bonus of a detachable neck made it easier to work on. The neck had too much upbow and the truss rod was maxed out. A combination of clamping and adding washers to the truss rod pretty much fixed it. Also gave it a fret polish and some very light work on the nut while I was at it. Owner's comments "Dude, it plays like a dream!"
Classical guitar - an old Aria. I've actually never done any work on classical guitars before, so I had to learn how to restring one by watching youtube vids lol. But the neck is arrow straight and the body is in great shape too. Just need to file down some fret ends, clean up the nut and saddle, oil the fretboard and restring.
Acoustic - It's a L'arrivee L-03. Expensive, gorgeous sounding guitar. Had a pretty serious amount of backbow, as a result of having strings loosened while making a trip from 14,000 ft elevation in northern British Columbia to sea level in Montreal. I tuned it up a few days ago and that took out much of the back bow. Took a look again just now and the neck is almost perfectly flat, still a tiny tiny bit of backbow though. Maybe I'll put in a tiny amount of relief with the truss rod, but otherwise, just a simple restringing. The saddle is kinda chewed up under the strings in places so I might have to resurface those spots.
Cool stuff. It's nice having a change from what I usually do (shred sticks and metal guitars)
whoops.
wrong room.
Why is that interesting?
Jazzmaster - never worked on one before. Not difficult to understand, not unlike a gibby with a bigsby, but the added bonus of a detachable neck made it easier to work on. The neck had too much upbow and the truss rod was maxed out. A combination of clamping and adding washers to the truss rod pretty much fixed it. Also gave it a fret polish and some very light work on the nut while I was at it. Owner's comments "Dude, it plays like a dream!"
Classical guitar - an old Aria. I've actually never done any work on classical guitars before, so I had to learn how to restring one by watching youtube vids lol. But the neck is arrow straight and the body is in great shape too. Just need to file down some fret ends, clean up the nut and saddle, oil the fretboard and restring.
Acoustic - It's a L'arrivee L-03. Expensive, gorgeous sounding guitar. Had a pretty serious amount of backbow, as a result of having strings loosened while making a trip from 14,000 ft elevation in northern British Columbia to sea level in Montreal. I tuned it up a few days ago and that took out much of the back bow. Took a look again just now and the neck is almost perfectly flat, still a tiny tiny bit of backbow though. Maybe I'll put in a tiny amount of relief with the truss rod, but otherwise, just a simple restringing. The saddle is kinda chewed up under the strings in places so I might have to resurface those spots.
Cool stuff. It's nice having a change from what I usually do (shred sticks and metal guitars)
whoops.
wrong room.