[Tom Stelter Newbie]

I was just in the AMP shop/store in West Palm Beach FL (awesome guitar / amp repair shop) and a customer had just dropped off a Fender neck for them to sell… You might want to give them a call and see if its worth the inquiry. 561-471-9441

[Tom Stelter Newbie]

Thanks again to those that lended their wisdom. Bridge doctor just came in plus some bone saddle blanks so will get ready to tackle that project in near future.

[Tom Stelter Newbie]

Thanks for all of the inputs. I am going to order the foam cutter package. I will try to post some pics of the FG200J. In the meantime, I just got done doing a neck reset of a crappy Fender that had a loose neck. It pulled straight out (not up) as the flanges on the neck’s dovetail were broken . I was able to slightly chisel down a few spots to slide the neck back in and added to threaded fasteners and turned it into a bolt on neck. I know, I cheated, but for a $40 guitar, some kid will have a playable instrument.

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Thank you vey much! Found one on reverb now that I know what to look for 😁

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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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[Tom Stelter Newbie]

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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I found this thread interesting. Growing up on the farm we used Osage orange for fence posts. Hardest wood I know of.. I have some squirreled away and thought it would be interesting if I could make a bridge out of it and see how it works… but being new to this stuff, was wondering if it would be too hard/dense of a wood to use on a guitar… Anyone considered this wood as something to use??