Owen

Very smooth Sometimes people get edgy about sending stuff outside the UK. I am not sure why that is, but no one should have any fear about selling to Victor. Very smooth indeed.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1467726310' post='3085650'] Was it a Martin by any chance? [/quote] Actually not.

OK, thanks y'all. I was guessing it was a bridge re-profile thing. The guitar was brand new and cannot have had more than 10 hours playing time as people played it in the shop. It was just very odd for such an expensive instrument to have such a glaring issue.

I went with a friend to look at acoustic guitars the other day. I will not go into naming and shaming because it is frankly unhelpful, but he was looking at £3K guitars and the intonation on the bottom E string on one of them was out. Not in a whole quarter tone style, but in a way that frankly I would expect a £3K instrument to not be. How hard is it to intonate an acoustic? We did not discuss it with the shop because he did not want to take it any further.

I'm digging it.

Proper lush.

[quote name='Shockwave' timestamp='1466252882' post='3074432'] You could rout the cavity further out and get a kahler 6 string tremolo bridge!! [/quote] I totally could However...........................

Chris (first name terms now!) would like to do the work up in Overwater HQ. As I have repeatedly discovered in my attempts to do any sort of DIY, I always have to pay a professional to do it properly afterwards anyway so I will send it up. The cavity looks to be fine and dandy and there is a slight crackling on the posts to suggest that there is action in there.

Thanks, I had thought about wood but not a metal plate. I am moving towards just sending it up to Overwater who reckon they have the bits and then it will be kosher Overwater (always keeping an eye on re-sale!) rather than Owen Custom Shop.

I have the blue note cover books as well as some others. What I want to do is paper a small room with the coves I like best. Strangley my wife does not think that this would be cool. Ho hum.

I used Lemon Oil on a guitar (not bass) once and it REALLY dried out the board and even made the frets rough. It might have been a freak reaction but I will never go anywhere near it again.

Top stuff indeed!

I have in my possesion the Overwater 6 string bass which was on the for sale forum recently which needs a bridge. Obviously the first port of call for a bridge is Overwater themselves but they have stopped using them and it was a custom built piece for them. I am awaiting a response about it from them. If they have a spare than happy days, but I am not holding my breath. Does anyone have one lurking in their parts box? Hey! It could happen. If not then I will either need to fill the cavity which the bridge sits in [url="http://s8.photobucket.com/user/peredur/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160615_163436_zpsohxdjtwd.jpg.html"][/url] and use A N Other bridge or find a bridge with a pretty large baseplate - 80mm x 125mm. Does anyone have any leads? TIA

Just fabulous!

Mmmm.....relics = yummy.