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I acquired this guitar today, in its day it retailed for about 750 quid, I got it for a fraction on marketplace, but it needed a bit of work.
Cedar top and mahogany back and sides.
It's a concert sized electro acoustic, all solid wood, with a florentine cutaway and an oval sound hole, I kind of liked the jazz vibe.
The cedar top has a few small dings, I could possibly get these out by sanding, steaming then refinishing, but I'm leaving it as is. I want it as a general knocking about guitar so it will acquire a few more dings no doubt.
The main thing is to make it functional. First, it wouldn't tune properly, the main reason is shown below, the 5th string is touching the 6th strings tuning peg, mainly because the strings are wound incorrectly. New strings sorted that there isn't much clearance so just have to be careful when winding them.
Next was a faulty tuning peg, the tightening nut doesn't do much, seems the internal thread is stripped. I can get away with this for now, I'll look out for another. While I had the strings off I gave the fretboard a clean and oiled it with a smidgin of lemon oil.
Finally, the tuner/preamp didn't work. This one was easy to identify and sort. I had a new pp3 connector in stock.
It's now playable although the action is a little high. Taking a look at it, the nut is fine, no need to adjust the truss rod, just need to take a mm or so off the saddle height to lower the strings. I'll do that tomorrow, I'll test the under saddle pickup while I'm at it.
Cedar top and mahogany back and sides.
It's a concert sized electro acoustic, all solid wood, with a florentine cutaway and an oval sound hole, I kind of liked the jazz vibe.
The cedar top has a few small dings, I could possibly get these out by sanding, steaming then refinishing, but I'm leaving it as is. I want it as a general knocking about guitar so it will acquire a few more dings no doubt.
The main thing is to make it functional. First, it wouldn't tune properly, the main reason is shown below, the 5th string is touching the 6th strings tuning peg, mainly because the strings are wound incorrectly. New strings sorted that there isn't much clearance so just have to be careful when winding them.
Next was a faulty tuning peg, the tightening nut doesn't do much, seems the internal thread is stripped. I can get away with this for now, I'll look out for another. While I had the strings off I gave the fretboard a clean and oiled it with a smidgin of lemon oil.
Finally, the tuner/preamp didn't work. This one was easy to identify and sort. I had a new pp3 connector in stock.
It's now playable although the action is a little high. Taking a look at it, the nut is fine, no need to adjust the truss rod, just need to take a mm or so off the saddle height to lower the strings. I'll do that tomorrow, I'll test the under saddle pickup while I'm at it.
