View Single Post
Old July 20th, 2009, 12:50 AM   #26 (permalink)
DanofTucson
Tele-Meister
 
DanofTucson's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Tucson
Age: 56
Posts: 184
Mesquitievarious Neck repair

Here it is



For those of you that double on upright, I can highly recommend the Corelli tungsten wrapped / steel core strings. I got a new set from Southwest Strings in Tucson when I did the new setup after this repair. They are way easier on the fingers and have much better tone than my old "Red Label" strings. I made the "Peg Leg" end pin out of an old table leg and a white cane tip.




When I reset the action and cut new slots for the lighter gauge strings I made feet for the old bridge out of ironwood. Ironwood grows in the Sonoran Desert where mesquite grows, and has sometimes been cut down and sold as BBQ wood with the mesquite. I can't image how the wood cutters could not know what they were doing. The ironwood would be so much harder on their tools. The heavy dense ironwood seemed to improve sustain and volume.
__________________
...
DanofTucson is offline   Reply With Quote