Re: Bridge misplaced on D-18

Jerome Ranch wrote:

Jeez, I've had the D-18 since 1969, generally sounded fine, but was
not as well intonated as I might like, and now that my ears is
sensitive to this, I took it in to get a compensated saddle.

My Martin luthier tells me the saddle is 0.25" too far from nut, that
one reason why it sounds a bit off.
There is insufficient room to recut the bridge for a new saddle, so a
new bridge has to be made that is wider.
Martin is paying for it

Interesting.

Jerry


They used to be able to get away with that since the average bluegrasser never plays above the 3rd fret. Intonation problems are more noticable the further up the neck you go.

JD
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