This lovely Washburn acoustic has just had it’s action lowered – down by over 1mm at the 12th fret, so it now has a feel akin to an electric. It’s so easy to play! Lovely! The fretboard has had a new lease of life too, as I’ve got rid of he years of dirt and grime, and it’s as clean as the day it was bought. With a fresh set of Elixir Nanoweb strings, this baby sings!
So the Martin got finished beautifully – the action was so good that any electric guitar would be proud to bear it, and it really plays effortlessly.
I’ve since received some school basses that have a myriad of different issues, including missing jack sockets, missing pickguards and exposed wiring, and intonation issues. They need some serious love but I’m sure the results will make them a real joy to play in the end!
Next, this Ibanez walked in. It needed a fret stone, re-crown, setup and also needs it’s switch replacing as there’s a spot on it where the signal cuts out completely!
I started with the fret stone and re-crown so that I could batch some soldering together once I get the go-ahead on the basses.
The pits that were present in the frets came out really easily, and they polished up beautifully after lots of elbow grease! Once that was all done I set about lowering the action (came down by a 3rd so is now mega-low!) and now it’s so easy to play. Unreal, and so exciting! It’s a new guitar. One tweak of the intonation on the high E string and it was good to go!
This little baby is amazing! It arrived with a reasonable action but it had room to come down and that’s exactly what I did.
The truss rod had room to be tightened to encourage the neck to straighten, and this helped me keep the action down across the length of the neck.
I took about 1.5mm off the base of the bridge saddle, sanded it smooth, replaced it and then checked the resulting action.
It came out wonderfully, measuring 1.5mm at the 12th fret. There’s no buzz whatsoever and it almost plays itself!
