Melodius Thunk
Junior Member
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2021
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An acquaintance of mine dropped off his Westerly made X-150D to have me make a new nut for it. I immediately noticed that acoustically it’s volume was noticeably lower than that of my Corona made X-150D. I later noticed that the saddle on his guitar was leaning a bit forward on its bridge posts. It turned out that the bridge posts on his guitar were way too short. Because they were too short, they were not screwed all the way into the bridge. And, there were only a couple of millimeters of the posts protruding into the saddle. I made and installed some new posts of the correct length for the needed bridge height. It made a huge difference in the acoustic volume of his guitar. I wonder if other Guild archtops might suffer from this? It may be worth a quick check the next time you have all of your strings removed. I believe that I used 3mm threaded stock if anyone is interested.