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Your drawings show something much greater than a 5 degree angle.

Why can’t you raise the saddle a bit?

I made some for a steel string guitar about 40 years ago but I didn’t like the tone of the open strings. It took away a lot of brightness in the tone.

I seal bare wood with a couple of thin coats of lacquer and then apply colored paste wood pore filler. Kind of consistent with the process described above except for the specific products used.

Yes, spray a little lacquer thinner on the blush and that should disappear. May take a couple of applications a few minutes apart to get down to the affected layer. In regards to the order of steps, I do think it matters much. Nitro fill would be better than CA if you are sure it’s a nitro finish. T...

Electric guitars are usually setup issues or maybe a loose output jack. Acoustic guitars are usually setup and bridge issues and maybe a neck reset. Of course both types of guitars often need new frets. Cracks are not that common of a repair down here near Houston, but is likely much more common whe...

Very nice! And welcome to the MIMF, Steve.

I have tried all the new stuff and still prefer old fashioned paste wood pore filler.

I picked up the trombone after a hiatus of 53 years. I joined a small jazz ensemble and also a community band. Am having a blast. And not unexpectedly, I started repairing and restoring old beat up trombones. Here is a recent project; a marching trombone. I removed a bunch of dents. Also, refinished...

Just about anything is fixable given sufficient time and skill. It will take a lot of both to bring it back into playable condition. The main problem will be gluing the bowl back together. This might require removal of the top and construction of a bowl mold.

Welcome to the forum.

Answering these type of questions is what this forum is designed for.

Another good new sanding product is the Kovax Tolecut sanding film that comes in 1"x1" sticky back squares. They’re great for leveling small finish touchups or drop fills and not creating what I call the volcano effect; where you remove a ring of the existing finish around the drop fill yo...

I love Assilex and I have 800 up to 1500 grit. I also use Abralon pads and have it in 2000 and 4000 grit. Sanding to 4000 grit makes buffing incredibly easy. I use a bit of soapy water with the Abralon.

Nitrocellulose can offgas corrosion inducing compounds that will eat up surrounding materials, including metal. Normally this happens from nitrocellulose plastics (pickguards and binding) instead of nitrocellulose finish. The only way to deal with it is to get rid of the materials that are breaking ...

Horizontal would probably be stronger.

There is someone else on Facebook that has posted this same picture with the same question. What’s up with that?

The real ones are only available on Mark Blanchard’s site. They are all I use and he will make them any length you want..

One good thing about hide glue is that any dried squeeze out can easily be removed by wiping with a rag dampened with warm water.

And the body.

Here is a photo of a Yamaha FG-18- after removal and a bit of cleanup.