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. […]

Larrivee – Low action

Does your guitar buzz playing open chords? at the top of the neck?  It’s probably because the slots in the nut are too low.  The proper answer is to replace the nut but a quick fix can be achieved…. It’s got a nice bone nut, but the action is way too low.  As I say, […]

Tanglewood Setup

This one is a little unusual. Normally when someone brings an acoustic for a setup it’s because the action is too high…. But once I’d put the new strings on this one was a little low… The truss-rod was actually to tight so there was too much curve in the neck as well, that’s only […]

Fender Acoustic – Setup with lower action

There’s nothing worse than trying to learn the guitar on one that’s really hard to play!  The action on this one was very high which is only ever going to give you sore fingers! Measuring up at the 12th fret the action’s way too high… The frets are a little uneven so I’ll never be […]

Freshman – Setup and lower action

This is another nice one.  I’m not a great fan of Freshman but this one feels right. Nothing much wrong, just a little high in the action.  The neck had just a little too much set in it for my liking. so flatten it out just a little.  I did that with the old strings […]