Repair - Kent KF-720 dreadnought acoustic guitar made in Korea 1970s Part 2

 

Customized nut string guide to match original zero fret string spacing

Repair - Kent KF-720 dreadnought acoustic guitar made in Korea 1970s Part 1

This job was a repair for someone who had tried to repair it themselves and had a lot of issues. So I was tasked to undo what had already been done and start over:

• Tap truss rod back into proper position
• Create custom string guide for zero fret
• Removed bridge, cleaned off super glue, filed lower to improve action and screw holes filled with its own matching sawdust
• Scraped and sanded bridge pad, filled and re-drilled 6 string holes for bridge
• Re-glued bridge, correcting string spacing and alignment
• Polished frets, rounded fretboard edges, cleaned & oiled rosewood
• De-glossed back of neck with Scotch Brite pad
• Minor cosmetic touch-ups with wood stain match pen
• New Elixir strings 13 gauge with setup