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Image from Totally Rad Guitars (good website btw), but this is what I have coming. A 1989 MIJ Ibanez s540. I've had RGs, and while I like the neck and playability I've never quite gelled with the looks of the overall size, they're a bit too macho aggro for my quiet nature whereas the S series looks ...

Something both shreddy and classy this way comes.

You don't need to remove the bridge to shave the top down, it stays on, it gets masked off, top gets planed/sanded. Anything else is just making extra work. Is the saddle slot deep enough to allow for that? Or does it needs 'deepening' to maintain saddle support? It's deep enough. When I measured i...

I really love old acoustics, and love the mahogany tone. But I'd be concerned about the break angle and the maxed-out bridge insert. For me, this sets the value. Getting the best out of this guitar could require work? The question then becomes: how does it play now, and how does it sound now? Got a...

You don't need to remove the bridge to shave the top down, it stays on, it gets masked off, top gets planed/sanded. Anything else is just making extra work.

I really love old acoustics, and love the mahogany tone. But I'd be concerned about the break angle and the maxed-out bridge insert. For me, this sets the value. Getting the best out of this guitar could require work? The question then becomes: how does it play now, and how does it sound now? Got a...

Ive been after a rad old guild for a while- let me know if/when he’s keen to sell. I’d be keen to check it out. He in this context is me :) It's my guitar, I'm just not the original purchaser since I wasn't born then. Sorry for that confusion, reading it back it may have been worded a bit shittily.

There's also the half and half approach - top wrap the 3 skinny strings for bendability, and leave the other 3 as normal for the feeling you're used to.

it's for playability. Everything else is guff and psychosomatic. What top wrapping does is drastically lower the break angle behind the bridge, the same as if you raised the stop bar (if you have one), but then to get the same height from a raised stop bar it'd need to be very very high which would ...

$1200-2000 seems to be asking price on Reverb. Given the tanking market it in NZ and condition, $800 maybe? https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=guild%20d-25m&ships_to=XX https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=Guild%20D25&make=guild&product_type=acoustic-guitars There must be two Reverbs!...

Wassup guys, this is a 1979 Guild D25m. Purchased from House of Guitars in Califon, New Jersey (not by me). Made in USA, solid spruce top, solid mahogany sides, and the laminated arched mahogany back without bracing for added volume (according to Guild). The neck is one piece mahogany with a rosewoo...

Any opinions on a Martin D15? It's actually the d15 special, which has a spruce top along with the mahogany back and sides, a limited run for a US chain, the nearest relative of which is the d15m out here which is all mahogany. I've been offered one in trade for my Furch (retail is about the same) b...

1977 Greco SE500 is inbound. Looks to have had an interesting life and there's a crack running through the tuner holes which I think I can remedy, but it is chock full of mojo. Also a 1977 SE450 neck on what I think is a SE500 Robbie Robertson body as it has that crazy pickup layout which looks like...

Timely! We were chatting about the bridge doctor the other day :) I had a look online, saw others had made their own, and decided to try my hand at making one from some old walnut I had along with a spare T nut and bolt. Total cost is about 60c, I just hope it works. 474453864_1366715471429547_5489...

Timely! We were chatting about the bridge doctor the other day :) I had a look online, saw others had made their own, and decided to try my hand at making one from some old walnut I had along with a spare T nut and bolt. Total cost is about 60c, I just hope it works. 474453864_1366715471429547_54899...