![]() ![]() Plenty of issues left with this guitar, namely it won’t stay in tune and it won’t intonate properly New strings and gave it a cleaning all over that would make a hoarder cringe.Clean the volume and tone pots with Deoxit to get rid of that scratchy pot sound. ![]() The nut had been cut too deep on the G string so I repaired it with baking soda and super glue and recut the nut.018″ at the 7th fret with a capo on the first fret and the string held down at the 17th fret. Set the truss rod properly, measuring.At which point I figured out that the “Rosewood” fret board was just painted on, because I actually sanded off some “Rosewood”…so I touched up the fretboard with brown and black Sharpie.Filed down the fret sprout and leveled the frets.I removed the saddle screws, marked the body where the screws sat, then drilled shallow holes 1/4″ into the body of the guitar so that the saddle height screws could be screwed in deeper and not stick up so high.The saddle screws would poke me in the hand when I palm muted. First off it had super high action so I lowered the saddle to the lowest height. ![]()
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