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 […]

Snap Dragon, folding guitar – Setup

Here’s something unusual, a folding travel guitar.  I’ve never come across one of these before.  I’ve seen some folding guitars before, but never one that really seems to work.  Getting the folding joint right, so that it snaps into place accurately is a real problem, but these people have cracked it.  Unfortunately the playing action […]

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 […]