Hi all,
I recently picked up a 1996 Guild D-25 in a second hand shop for 200€. It's clearly hardly been used and is in excellent condition aside from a bridge-lift top bulge from languishing for years but with string tension. I empathize with this belly bulge( my own is probably also from too much languishing),but with all properly set up, I have an action at the twelfth fret of 2.8 mm, so it's right at its geometry limits and can only get worse. Aside from wanting to check the bulging ( better stick to the one on the guitar for the time being) ,I'd like to get the action down a bit lower. I've actually already lowered the saddle.8 mm... but don't want to lower it any more, as I'm rather guessing that doing so will tend to impact on sound performance more than the fitting a "Bridge Doctor".
Fitting this contraption under one's soundboard suggests itself as being bound to impact on sound performance, but what opinions I can find on internet don't seem to suggest that particularly.
I also understand that Breedlove are making guitars with something similar to counter this rather universal problem.
Any first-hand options on BD's before I go down that road?
( if I go jogging that may fix both bellies!)
I recently picked up a 1996 Guild D-25 in a second hand shop for 200€. It's clearly hardly been used and is in excellent condition aside from a bridge-lift top bulge from languishing for years but with string tension. I empathize with this belly bulge( my own is probably also from too much languishing),but with all properly set up, I have an action at the twelfth fret of 2.8 mm, so it's right at its geometry limits and can only get worse. Aside from wanting to check the bulging ( better stick to the one on the guitar for the time being) ,I'd like to get the action down a bit lower. I've actually already lowered the saddle.8 mm... but don't want to lower it any more, as I'm rather guessing that doing so will tend to impact on sound performance more than the fitting a "Bridge Doctor".
Fitting this contraption under one's soundboard suggests itself as being bound to impact on sound performance, but what opinions I can find on internet don't seem to suggest that particularly.
I also understand that Breedlove are making guitars with something similar to counter this rather universal problem.
Any first-hand options on BD's before I go down that road?
( if I go jogging that may fix both bellies!)
Statistics: Posted by SKYWALKER — Sat Dec 07, 2024 11:47 am