Bone nut, saddle & pins; K&K Pure Mini pickup :: 2015 Gibson J-15 [4.5 lbs]

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A walnut slope shoulder dread in for a new bone nut, saddle and bridge pins.  The player had attempted to remove the original finished-in nut himself and ended up damaging the finish so we opted to touch up around the nut.  The guitar was also amplified with a K&K Pure Mini installation on the bridge plate.

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New bone nut & saddle :: 2003 Garrison G40-CE [5.5 lbs]

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An interesting dreadnought cutaway in for a new bone nut and saddle.  All of the braces are made of carbon fiber.  Even the neck block is carbon fiber!  The neck is a bolt-on and one of the inserts split the stacked heel and needed to be repaired.  This guitar got two spots on the vlog - one video on the saddle and another on the nut.

New saddle on an overset neck :: Washburn WD20SCE [5.0 lbs]

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New saddle on an overset neck :: Washburn WD20SCE [5.0 lbs]

This dreadnought cutaway came in with buzzy, super low action.  Normally I can just shim up the saddle to correct this (and save the customer a little money) but this wouldn't work in this situation.  The original saddle was already shimmed and poorly fit in the bridge (ie. loose).  Adding a shim that this needed would have not held as the high neck angle required a very tall saddle and would have broken the shim right off (think how you break a Kit Kat bar).  The only solution was making a new saddle.  This neck angle is so high that it just about maxed out the bone saddle blanks I have in stock.  Usually you like to see about 3/16" of saddle exposure above the bridge.  This one has about 9/32" (+ 3/32")!

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