Taylor
Trevor Startt, a great guy I got to know a bit better this weekend, left me with his Taylor acoustic for a setup and some TLC. I did a thorough clean of the fretboard and re-dressed the frets. And lowered the bridge saddle very slightly.
Firefox PDF viewer plugin
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Blue guitar- light is showing at the end of the tunnel!
Grover tuners are in! And today I mounted the ABR bridge and wired a ground to the tailpiece. The neck pitch needed some tweaking to set at a good angle for the new bridge, but that's in great shape now. The nut and frets are next on the list. I'm excited to do that soon and really fine tune all the details!
Polishing out the blue guitar
Today I sanded and polished the blue guitar. I'm planning to change out the bridge for a Gibson ABR style this weekend. I'm holding off on refretting the guitar for now.
Falcon Project
Gibson ES-339 fretwork
Yesterday and today I've been levelling and re-dressing the frets on my ES-339. Brand new the frets are probably twice as high as I'd like them to be, causing pitch problems especially with lighter guage strings. Here are a few photos from the first round of fretwork. I'll probably take 3 or 4 passes to slowly work the frets to the right spot for me.
