bleujazz3
Fractal Fanatic
This past month, in order to complete my basic collection of guitars, a D'Angelico Premier Mini XT DC VS was added to my hanger display. The ES-339-scaled semi-hollow body is both bright and soulful, resonant and loud, soft and dynamic, to name a few good qualities.
The only misgiving I felt about this guitar was the fact that it contained a hollow PPS plastic nut, which by itself was not bad. The improvement repair that is being made as I type is a standard Epiphone bone nut, shaved slightly each side and back edge, and the string grooves rounded with a round file, instead of keeping them v-shaped.
Here is the work in progress. Hopefully, my luthier has taken pictures of additional images so as to document the work...
Here you can see the hollow nut and width variance.
Here's the bone nut attached. May ask the luthier to add some fretboard oil to cover the scratches from files/steel wool.
The only misgiving I felt about this guitar was the fact that it contained a hollow PPS plastic nut, which by itself was not bad. The improvement repair that is being made as I type is a standard Epiphone bone nut, shaved slightly each side and back edge, and the string grooves rounded with a round file, instead of keeping them v-shaped.
Here is the work in progress. Hopefully, my luthier has taken pictures of additional images so as to document the work...
Here you can see the hollow nut and width variance.
Here's the bone nut attached. May ask the luthier to add some fretboard oil to cover the scratches from files/steel wool.
