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We take care of the details!

Jeremy Behn — May 20, 2014

The fact is that many commercial guitars and violins have poor setup, not all, but many. Here are some photos of a maple/ebony saddle in the spider/bridge of a brand new resonator. The core of this guitar is fine, with decent quality for the money and a very good sounding american made cone from Paul Beard. The saddle however is not that well done and unfortunately it’s an important part of good tone production. These are the sorts of details I address on any instruments that I carry. Most of what I carry doesn’t have these issues but occasionally some of the instruments I sell do need some attention and rest assured that if they don’t get addressed before going on the floor for sale I try to make sure they get addressed before they get sold and even then you need only bring the instrument back to me after purchase and I will deal with these factory oversights free of charge.

Poor saddle fit
Poor saddle fit-old
Good string slots
New saddle/bridge fit
New saddle
New Saddle
Good saddle to bridge fit
New string slots
Poor slots
Poor Slots-old saddle
Poor height adj
Very poor height adj-old

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