Selling - Yamaha GC 41 Grand Concert Classical Guitar
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I have decided to keep this guitar because its tone and volume is too good not to keep it for myself. This is my humble upgrade for my Yamaha GC41, The saddle and nut were taken from over sized camel's bone. Much time were spent on bringing the saddle and nut to size.
I got this inspiration from the older generation Yamaha GC 50, 60 &70 of the 1980's. This saddle took me about 4 hours to complete as much of the time was spend adjusting the fit into the neck and the adjustment of the strings height.
The height on the 12th fret was raised by 1 mm to suit my playing style. The compensation G-string was also incorporated on the saddle to give it the Yamaha trademark look. Intonation is almost perfect now.
This will give you an idea how much work goes into trimming the blank camel's bone to size.
The quality of the tone and volume have both increased significantly. What I also noticed is there is much more overtone (I am not sure if this is the right word?). There is a lot more resonance and sustain now after the bridge and saddle upgrade. The bass has become more solid and punchy especially on the 4th and 5th strings. When I tune the 1st string, the tuner indicator always indicate an alternate between the 1st and 6th string. Very strange.
Thank you very much for reading.
I have decided to keep this guitar because its tone and volume is too good not to keep it for myself. This is my humble upgrade for my Yamaha GC41, The saddle and nut were taken from over sized camel's bone. Much time were spent on bringing the saddle and nut to size.
I got this inspiration from the older generation Yamaha GC 50, 60 &70 of the 1980's. This saddle took me about 4 hours to complete as much of the time was spend adjusting the fit into the neck and the adjustment of the strings height.
The height on the 12th fret was raised by 1 mm to suit my playing style. The compensation G-string was also incorporated on the saddle to give it the Yamaha trademark look. Intonation is almost perfect now.
This will give you an idea how much work goes into trimming the blank camel's bone to size.
The quality of the tone and volume have both increased significantly. What I also noticed is there is much more overtone (I am not sure if this is the right word?). There is a lot more resonance and sustain now after the bridge and saddle upgrade. The bass has become more solid and punchy especially on the 4th and 5th strings. When I tune the 1st string, the tuner indicator always indicate an alternate between the 1st and 6th string. Very strange.
Thank you very much for reading.
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