duluthdan

Moved from Minnesota to just outside Aspen, Colorado 5 years ago. Recently sold a Les Paul and bought a J-45, then traded in an HD-35 on a Jackson Browne Model 1 - and wonder why I took so long to discover Gibson acoustics. Got slammed with a medical issue 30 years ago, and stopped playing for 20 years. Now I live in the Rockies, play my guitars every day - at nearly 8,000 feet - at that elevation everyone's always high. Smile Fierce !

I'm gonna try this over the weekend with the "pink" ones. Have to remember before and after pics, and the recipe.

I just acquired a new Jackson Browne Model 1 - and have no issues, its a rather magnificent instrument, likewise with a 2010 J-45. I am curious as to what specific observations your Luthier, and the others, made to lead them to believe the neck was "poorly set" . This seemed to reveal itself after a new lower action setup was done?

Nice J-45. If I could only keep one guitar, it is my J-45. Smile Fierce !!! (oh, and nice hat too!)

Kudos - this is very nice !

A couple of days ago I spent 3 hours at Wildwood Guitars near Denver - I had my guy pull just about every Hummingbird and SJ, with a handful of J-185s out of the warehouse for me to play and try - I'll bet I played over 30 guitars - and except for two out of more than a dozen Hummingbirds they all sounded just fine to very good - the two that did not, judging from the stick in the cases, I was probably the first to play them. It is very dry out here, but I'm sure the warehouse is very closely climate controlled. If any of those birds had as pretty a cherry red on them that Frederick's has, I probably would have bought it. As it happens I casually asked if there where any Jackson Browne Model 1s (w/o pu)in the warehouse, there was, and that's the one that came home with me, but there is an SJ and an HB there that were swell candidates too.

J-45 TV: 2010(pre Lacey Act)

Saweeeet !!!

Just acquired a 2 yr old J-45 TV. I have 4 Martins. I live in the Rockies, and the air here is typically very dry - semi-arid. I dutifully keep a couple of humidifiers in each case, with drop-in Planet Waves humidifiers in the guitars, and I have a large room humidifier going almost 24/7. Hygrometer in the room struggles to maintain maybe 32-34%. How can one guard against the "checking" that the Gibson is prone to? Love the J-45, it is so fun, but would like to keep it looking as good as its Martin bretheren. Do you keep hygrometers in each case?

Somewhere I read that if you take bone, and smear it with brown shoe polish, tie it up in a rag overnight, that it will result in a dyed hue, tempering the white, and perhaps resulting in an aged or vintage look. I just did this with a bone strap pin, and it turned out to be the same odd color as the Bridge Pins pictured above. My wife said "how come they're pink?". Guess that means I'm going back to white.

Ok - I put in a bone (compensated) saddle, and at the same time I replaced the plastic bridge pins with these bone pins. Except for the vaguely odd color of the pins I detect no change in tone on this J-45 TV. The saddle that was replaced was stock bone, I believe, but not compensated - putting in the compensated saddle lowered the action on the high B and E strings a tad and makes this instrument very easy on the fingerstyle that I am addicted to.

J-45 TV - Bone Saddle - Compensated or uncompensated? The existing saddle is not compensated, but a bit low. Looks like it had an undersaddle pickup, but that is gone - was replaced with a Seymour Duncan Mag-Mic in the soundhole. All three of my Martin dreads have a compensated saddle. Won't break the bank if I order one of each, but thought I'd ask.