midnightright
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Hi,
I've got a D-25 from the early 90's. I've got it from a nationally reputable guitar shop, that has, among it's specialties - vintage guitars. It needed some work upon arrival due to some damage incurred during shipping. This took a very, very long time (of which, was spent with a professional luthier). When I got it back fairly recently - I brought it into my local shop for a setup (as it had sat for some time without strings on it). The saddle went from - let's hypothetically say it had 75% of it's full factory height (or thereabouts), to something more like 25%. The truss rod was apparently "loosened." The action is fine - any higher, and it might not be, especially given that the frets have been quite filed / leveled worked, dressed down to a point where it is beginning to require something of a 'gorilla grip,' to fret play in the cowboy chord positions. I know a photo would help, and I'll see if I can get that taken care of in the near future (I did have a shot of what it looked like when I first got it back, but that one is deceiving, since the saddle would not go all the way down into the slot - perhaps the wood had begin to close/shrink some over time?) . that said, when sending a photo of that (which now had the saddle height even higher then when first receiving the guitar from the store), the other pro luthier wrote back to me - that that was not much higher than where it should normally be (however with the caveat that there are a number of other factors to consider when measuring action, and that it would need to be done either in person, or by someone who knows what they're doing - which is what brought me to my setup mentioned here in the beginning). If it would help to have a neck reset and full fret replacement. What does that generally run these days? I know this can vary from place to place... but are we talking for me to figure, "no less than a grand?"
I've got a D-25 from the early 90's. I've got it from a nationally reputable guitar shop, that has, among it's specialties - vintage guitars. It needed some work upon arrival due to some damage incurred during shipping. This took a very, very long time (of which, was spent with a professional luthier). When I got it back fairly recently - I brought it into my local shop for a setup (as it had sat for some time without strings on it). The saddle went from - let's hypothetically say it had 75% of it's full factory height (or thereabouts), to something more like 25%. The truss rod was apparently "loosened." The action is fine - any higher, and it might not be, especially given that the frets have been quite filed / leveled worked, dressed down to a point where it is beginning to require something of a 'gorilla grip,' to fret play in the cowboy chord positions. I know a photo would help, and I'll see if I can get that taken care of in the near future (I did have a shot of what it looked like when I first got it back, but that one is deceiving, since the saddle would not go all the way down into the slot - perhaps the wood had begin to close/shrink some over time?) . that said, when sending a photo of that (which now had the saddle height even higher then when first receiving the guitar from the store), the other pro luthier wrote back to me - that that was not much higher than where it should normally be (however with the caveat that there are a number of other factors to consider when measuring action, and that it would need to be done either in person, or by someone who knows what they're doing - which is what brought me to my setup mentioned here in the beginning). If it would help to have a neck reset and full fret replacement. What does that generally run these days? I know this can vary from place to place... but are we talking for me to figure, "no less than a grand?"