This Weekend I learned to restring a classical/folk guitar.
I’ve had one for years and it’s a good next-to-the-desk guitar.
It’s a super cheap student level guitar, but I like it for two things.
It makes my fretting fingers work harder, or at least differently. It’s like exercise.
It sounds great. Kind of an old blues back porch sound. I don’t know how else to describe it.
But the strings were gross. Especially the wound strings.
So, I bought some new strings and probably double the value of the guitar.
Reference pic of the bridge tie-off.
The super duper quality plastic nut fell out as soon as the strings came loose.
The super duper quality saddle fell out too.
I have some nut blanks and I started to lay out a new nut.
The I started thinking about the saddle and don’t have anything on hand.
While thinking about jumping online and shopping, I looked the guitar over and remembered the bridge.
It’s plastic.
I’m not changing that. So, all the plastic went back on when I strung it up.
Not bad for a first shot. I shaved a few millimetres off the saddle too.
The tuning end is not so nice, but it’s holding. I have to trim the ends too.
Now the fun of stretching the strings in… the wound strings are close already. I expect everything to keep moving for a while.
It sounds good. I hope the coated strings stay ungross for a long time.
There are some dead spots just before the body, but I don’t care. I don’t play up there on this guitar.
There’s no truss rod. So fixing it means heat setting the neck and maybe a re-fret. Not worth it.
It’s a Huntington.
I’ve had one for years and it’s a good next-to-the-desk guitar.
It’s a super cheap student level guitar, but I like it for two things.
It makes my fretting fingers work harder, or at least differently. It’s like exercise.
It sounds great. Kind of an old blues back porch sound. I don’t know how else to describe it.
But the strings were gross. Especially the wound strings.
So, I bought some new strings and probably double the value of the guitar.
Reference pic of the bridge tie-off.
The super duper quality plastic nut fell out as soon as the strings came loose.
The super duper quality saddle fell out too.
I have some nut blanks and I started to lay out a new nut.
The I started thinking about the saddle and don’t have anything on hand.
While thinking about jumping online and shopping, I looked the guitar over and remembered the bridge.
It’s plastic.
I’m not changing that. So, all the plastic went back on when I strung it up.
Not bad for a first shot. I shaved a few millimetres off the saddle too.
The tuning end is not so nice, but it’s holding. I have to trim the ends too.
Now the fun of stretching the strings in… the wound strings are close already. I expect everything to keep moving for a while.
It sounds good. I hope the coated strings stay ungross for a long time.
There are some dead spots just before the body, but I don’t care. I don’t play up there on this guitar.
There’s no truss rod. So fixing it means heat setting the neck and maybe a re-fret. Not worth it.
It’s a Huntington.
