The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13629   Message #113883
Posted By: Easy Rider
13-Sep-99 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: Guitar-Buying Advice
Subject: RE: Guitar-Buying Advice
Moonchild!

Relax. I am not discounting your guitar's value to YOU. It may indeed be very sweet sounding and easy to play.

The B-25 was made from 1960 to 1977, and I think they all had bolted on bridges, maybe made of plastic or wood, all with adjustable porcelain saddles. Does that describe YOUR guitar? My 1964 Gibson J-50, which I bought new, for $125 (What did your B-25 cost?), and value highly, on the sentimental scale, was made that way.

In the Summer of 1998, I had the plastic, adjustable bridge removed and replaced by a standard, glued on only, solid ebony bridge, with a fixed saddle. I can not begin to tell you about the vast improvement in tone, volume and sustain that this simple modification produced! It astounded me. I highly reccommend it, if you really like your guitar. You won't be sorry. Just find a competant luthier, to do it!

Enjoy, EZR