Martin acoustic Road series stainless steel re-fret

[@martynharveythepoet5114]

Hi Sam, and a very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you! Let's hope we do get some Peace! Just wondering, what's the black tape you're using around 58' mins to protect the shoulders? It sounds like Gaffer/Duct/Duck tape... but I would have thought that would damage the finish??? Thanks :-)

[@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars]

H Martyn thank you! We WILL get to chat about things soon! The tape I use is Gorilla tape. In this context I use it for its thickness and strength to protect the finish but I keep its sticky side off the finish by first laying down a bed of low-tack wide masking tape.

[@bimler29]

Happy New Year Sam. Rather than use a fret end bevelling tool I use a good quality hand file ( 6” no.4 fine Vallorbe) and this adapts to the variable “straightness “ of the side of the fretboard. I get a nice close cut without much finish removal. Might be a little slower but less finish work. Worth a try perhaps?

[@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars]

Definitely - thanks for the recommendation. Do you have a specific model you could link me to?

[@ronnielopez1968]

Greetings sam sir 😊 happy new year!!! A bridge doctor pulls down the back of the bridge and pushes up under the saddle canceling out any effect on the string action I believe. Thanks for the video 👍

[@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars]

Hi Ronnie - all the best for 2025 to you too! The JLD Bridge System 'arrests' the bridge's tendency to rotate under string loading. This can cause a depression in front of the bridge, a slight hump behind the bridge and it can ultimately result in the bridge coming away from the guitar top to rotate around its front edge. In many cases, the 'best' that the JLD does on any particular guitar is to (hopefully) prevent any further rotation... but in reality, the rising action doesn't come from a rising bridge as much as it comes from a 'rotating and sinking' neck. The headstock pulls up; the fingerboard extension presses down into the body, distorting the sound hole as it does so. I've not kept a score-chart but if I'm honest, I think 1 in 5 JLD Bridge Systems that I've fitted have made a small difference; the majority.... nothing; no improvement in playing action.

[@LegsON]

Beautiful work! Have you noticed a tonal change?

[@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars]

@@LegsON difficult for me to say - Ken will be the man to tell us if the tune changes. Will be interesting to ask him. Guitar is boxed up waiting to be collected now!