Gibson!

Thinking outside the box.

Yep.

Also, on top of a plastic bridge, she has a spruce bridge plate.

Working late...

So Acoustic Corner can feel weird at night, alone.  Little creeks in the building, wind outside.  Never quite sure if you locked the door.

The perfect solution?

Bring your dog :-)   Maple likes to hang out at the ole' AC.  And at any sign of trouble, she'll let you know.  Like when some stranger tries the front door at 10:30 pm. 

In case that was you, she's a nice dog, but she was just trying to say, "Come back in the morning, we open at ten."

New bridge for a student cello

While never the most elegantly carved bridges, student bridges are always good practice to fit and set the string height.

1961 D-18

I can bring ya'll up to speed on this old D-18.  So far, I've reglued the bridge, fit the ''Bridge Saver'' bridge plate plugs, reset the neck, and dressed the fingerboard.

It moved about 1/64" with string tension, so it's been given a slight .009" back bow at this step, some fret compression should help us come out with a nice 3-4 thousands relief.

1937 Dobro refret

All wrapped up.  Tons of vibe on this old guitar.

19 new frets

The new frets went in well, and sighting down the neck it looks like we got that really slight back bow.  Now onto the clockwork of dressing these frets out.

Ready for some frets

At this point the fingerboard has been dressed, and sanded to a 400 grit paper.  I've got the neck straight, and I'm hoping for the frets to give me a 2-3 thousandths back bow after they compress the neck.  The neck moves .007" with tension, so that's what will give the neck a nice slight relief.