Great trouble shooting! Question for you, Bryan. I took my 76 D-35 in for a re-fret and the tech noticed that my bridge plate was chewed up. He repaired it by gluing rose wood over it and re-drilling the pin holes. What is your opinion on such a repair?
That's an acceptable way to do it.... it's called a bridgeplate cap. Instead of adding wood thickness there, I would usually fill the holes with dust and glue, re-ream, and slot the bridge. But I have used a VERY thin cap on occasion. On a '76, though... I'll be surprised if your bridge isn't out of position and therefore, I'm still gonna be inclined to pull the big Indian RW plate, put a small maple one in, and put the bridge (or the saddle at least) in the correct location.
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Wow great detective work! Beautiful guitar.
74 D18.. sounds incredible...it's a monster..It's one of the best sounding 70's D18 I have heard..The tone is closing in on a D28 Rosewood tone...
Good work, and great sounding guitar!
Sounds amazing
Rumbly is right. Blind test would have thought D-28!
Great trouble shooting!
Question for you, Bryan. I took my 76 D-35 in for a re-fret and the tech noticed that my bridge plate was chewed up. He repaired it by gluing rose wood over it and re-drilling the pin holes. What is your opinion on such a repair?
That's an acceptable way to do it.... it's called a bridgeplate cap. Instead of adding wood thickness there, I would usually fill the holes with dust and glue, re-ream, and slot the bridge. But I have used a VERY thin cap on occasion.
On a '76, though... I'll be surprised if your bridge isn't out of position and therefore, I'm still gonna be inclined to pull the big Indian RW plate, put a small maple one in, and put the bridge (or the saddle at least) in the correct location.
@@Bryankimsey Thanks, Bryan. I've got some thinking to do on this..