DIY

[Matt Hayden]

Rick Turner started a thread on the hazards of DIY lutherie on FB.

What do you feel comfortable doing yourself?

I’ll start –

• nuts – adjust & create new
• saddles – adjust and create new
• truss rod –  adjust, very little
• fret dressing. I’ve done fretwork but not as well as I’d like.

That’s mostly it for me. What about everyone else?

/mh

 

[Hank]

I’m better at demolition than I am at fine finish work. My hanks are too big to do much inside a guitar (except change batteries .  I have adjusted truss rods very little .

Luckily non of the Ramuda needs any fixing at the moment.

Oh…. I do do my own restrings………just did the 12 string…..now that’s work !

[Hank]

sorry about misspellings….as Matt H. says nothing before coffee.

[indexless]

If it bolts on, or screws on, I’m in, glue is a whole different can of worms

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by indexless.

[bert]

One of my favorite sayings is that “if it don’t come in a can, I don’t know anything about it”

 

Matt, about the same here… mostly DIY setup tweaks:

– adj truss rod (approx) .005″- action (approx) 3/32 low E and 2/32 high E
– slot bridge – round pins
– cut new nuts/saddles as needed
– replace tuning machines, pickguards, etc
– some limited drop fills

Being retired is goodly.  bert

[Daniel]

I’m with Rich.

I’ll adjust intonation on an electric but not on an acoustic.

Happy to swap out parts easily removed, but my soldering is usually pretty messy.

If I would need to glue it, un-glue it, shim it, shave it, cut it, file it, or clamp it then it’s going to a pro.

Daniel

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