We filled in the button holes since these were offset one fret because of the zero fret put buttons on the side only. We did narrow the neck some to fit the fingerboard, which was something Michael had laying around from his days at Tacoma Guitar. The fingerboard has a slight arch across similar in fashion to how Shelley Park sets up her guitars. Width of fingerboard at nut 41.5mm, at 12th fret 52mm. Overall length is 36.5" X 14.25" at the widest bout. I am re-profiling the back of the neck so I can get my smallish hands around it. I thought of modifying that into a D hole or maybe cutting an insert to reduce it to an oval hole. There is no cutout and of course there is the usual round hole. After a year the body hasn't sunken under the bridge so it can take that extra elevation. The key is to plane the old fingerboard into that wedge to increase the bridge height and string angle, which increases the punch while decreasing the sustain. We stringed the guitar with some John Pearse Nuages and the guitar sounds surprisingly nice, and fairly even throughout the scale. Finally the crappy tuners were replaced with some old Schaller tuners I had laying around. ![]() A DR Tailpiece was added along with a bridge of comparable height to my Shelley Park. ![]() A new fingerboard with a zero fret was glued on, profiled and fretted. ![]() My friend Michael who used to build guitars for Tacoma Guitar turned it into something of a Gypsy Jazz guitar.įirst thing was to remove the frets from the fingerboard and plane it into a long wedge full thickness at the last fret and down to zero at the nut. Had heavy bronze strings and a good bark. I found an old Decca parlor guitar for $75 at a music store outside Seattle.
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