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Permalink Reply by gene on January 10, 2009 at 9:29am

Thanks Gitty and Sam for these very valuable tips. Today I filed the bridge about 2mm lower and intonation seems a lot better. still not perfect but definitely better. I don't want to bring the action too low right now because I think I will primarily use it with a bottleneck. May be I'll tweak more with it later. anyways, here are some photos :D

Permalink Reply by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on January 10, 2009 at 10:30am

I've been thinking about doing some lacquer finish projects, myself. Patience is definitely my problem. Once I start on a guitar I can't wait to string it up and play it.

For anybody that is looking to do some lacquer work, I would recommend checking out some of Red Dog John McNair's techniques. For some reason he seems to be boycotting the 'Nation', but you can find him all over Youtube. He is the absolutely king of lacquer finishes. A long history of auto body shop work, I guess.

Permalink Reply by Wichita Sam on January 10, 2009 at 4:04pm

gene, It you're playing "sllide", string height isn't an issue, unless you're depressing the strings a lot. Intonation vs. string heigth is only an issue if you're fretting... the best, Sam
gene said:

Thanks Gitty and Sam for these very valuable tips. Today I filed the bridge about 2mm lower and intonation seems a lot better. still not perfect but definitely better. I don't want to bring the action too low right now because I think I will primarily use it with a bottleneck. May be I'll tweak more with it later.


anyways, here are some photos :D

Permalink Reply by Jarmo Katajisto on November 20, 2009 at 11:27pm

Hi Gene.

check my discussion "Box with paper cover... lacquer coating or not to be lacguer coating?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupage

I´m not test that yet but it feels good idea.

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