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.
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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!
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.
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.
I got to sanding the body of the blue guitar to prep it for laquering and rubbed some spots down to the wood in the process; so more coats of blue paint today. I will do a few coats over the next few days, and the laquering process will have to get pushed back.
In the mean-time - I’m levelling and crowning frets. I will still be re-fretting in a week or so, but it’s nice to play around and warm up since I haven’t done a total re-fret before.
In between all that I got to working on a headstock logo too.
