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Permalink Reply by Amy O'Donnell on March 13, 2014 at 10:08am

Good God. I am not worthy. That is a work of art.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Fred Johnson on March 14, 2014 at 2:15am

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Permalink Reply by Amy O'Donnell on March 14, 2014 at 8:17am

There's probably a Lego that will fix that. ; )

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Permalink Reply by Amy O'Donnell on March 12, 2014 at 11:37am

It worked!!! After fixing the bridge per Oily's advice, and amalgamating all the rest of your advice, we switched out the nut to the attached picture, and it sounds like angels playing! The Lego before the bridge was necessary to keep the 4th string from popping off. We probabably could have gone w/o it as a three-string.

The neck is too messed up to fret, so I am saving that as a summer project, and I told my son we would "electrify" it once the fretboard was straight, and his eyes grew into saucers. I think I know what we need to do, thanks to all your comments!


Amy

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on March 12, 2014 at 11:54am

Sweet!! And if you have problems with the center string popping out of the slot, you can put a single screw into the middle of the headstock and run the string around it so that it stays straight instead of at an angle.

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Permalink Reply by John Sawyer on March 12, 2014 at 12:01pm

I do that a lot... it helps with downward tension on the nut as well for that string...

 

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Permalink Reply by Amy O'Donnell on March 13, 2014 at 10:11am

Thanks, guys. That would have been smart. But I'm glad he found his own solution--a Lego of course!

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