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Questions on Classical guitar action
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Questions on Classical guitar action
I am working on a wall hanger that I thought would be fun to get working. It is an old Tokai. I have repaired a crack on left tuning arm. Also removed the bridge that had been badly glued on by previous owner. I am deciding if I want to put the effort into re-fretting it. I am new to Classical guitar actions, so my question is this – when you put a straight edge on the neck, where should it hit the bridge, if at all? I have learned that classical actions can be higher than acoustic, and that it is difficult to do a neck reset, so I am curious to what is acceptable measurements action wise…. Thanks in advance.
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Ted Woodford recently did a video setting up classical guitars. https://youtu.be/cZIIpy-C0gU?si=Imt0ZLIR7YQ1txxr
I find Ted’s videos to be both informative and entertaining, and I watch each new one no matter if it applies to something I am working on or not.
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Thanks, Ted’s video is great… I hadn’t seen that one yet, but sort of got hooked on watching his videos as I learn by watching…. Plus love his sense of humor….
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Here is a link to photos of work so far : https://share.icloud.com/photos/043WoRjVTKnK8Y3-Y3bOaHQYQ
As you can see, the action is not bad, neck is straight, frets at top are .028 but flat, progress to .032 at body. What is the norm for classical fret height?
I popped the bridge off (using old iron ) and it came off but pulled a bit of sound board with it.. I cleaned up bridge and body of old glue, etc, glued back on with titebond hide glue (interested in feedback if this was better than titebond wood glue, don’t have a hot hide glue pot or glue yet).
The top was very nicked up and lots of finish was gone around bridge, etc. I had some varnish lying around so I wanted to see how smooth I could lay down a coat and it came out pretty good (good enough for purpose of practice).
Was able to piece together a set of tuners from spare parts I had, and on to next fix, which is a cracked brace and 2 loose braces that run the length of soundboard. I guess I got a good specimen to practice on. Thanks in advance for listening…
P.s. Next is a Fender acoustic that was missing a bridge and has loose neck at body.. Might be my first neck reset… yeehaaah!
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