Manchester Guitar Tech
Ozzy Lister – guitar and bass repair
Dell Arte gypsy jazz guitar bridge reprofile
The owner of this Dell’Arte DG-P1 “The Pigalle” oval soundhole gypsy jazz acoustic guitar was finding the high action a bit hard to handle so brought it in for a setup.
As you can see the solid rosewood bridge isn’t adjustable and to take wood off the bottom would have disturbed the nice “moustache”.
The only solution then was to reprofile the top. I deepened the string slots one by one until the string height was acceptable then ground the top of the bridge down so that the slots were about as deep as the string’s radius. I then reprofiled the sides of the bridge to restore the gentle curve before sanding smooth and polishing with gun stock oil.
Fender Precision Bass partial refret
This Japanese Fender Precision Bass has been the mainstay of the bassist from The Australian Pink Floyd Show for about ten years.
Due to it being used for the same songs show after show, a couple of major grooves were worn in frets two and three.
I therefore performed a partial refret, carefully removing the worn frets and laying new frets into the gaps in the lacquer.
I then levelled all the frets, and polished them to a high gloss as you can see. It ought to be good for another ten years or so…
The final chapter – the guitar is now complete with cream pickguard and on its way to Italy.