This is Harry's Faith Venus Natural; a nice mid-price acoustic (probably around the £700-800 new price). Harry brought it hoping that I could give the action / playability a refresh and we discussed the limitations of acoustic guitars with glued necks where the only 'user-adjustability' for the action is via the saddle... Now he and I both know that this guitar features what is known as the Patrick Eggle Neck system... but all it means is that the neck is not only glued... but bolted as well. What it isn't is bolted and shimmed for easy adjustability like the Taylor neck system, unfortunately. I hope that the use of bolts here makes the process of neck resetting simpler than glue-only neck joints... but I'm just guessing because to use bolts AND glue could surely only make sense if it led to less glue being required and therefore, relatively-speaking, a less messy neck reset when the time comes. But I couldn't find a single piece of information anywhere as to why the Patrick Eggle neck system improved anything. The Faith Venus website has nothing to say about action adjustment other than 'take it to a qualified luthier' or some such. Presumably to have to do a full neck reset (including steaming off glue etc) to improve your action.
Anyway; faced with that reality my plan today was to go ahead and make a small action improvement at the body end (via the saddle which had scope for some lowering) and at the nut end with a new Tusq nut and low-cut slots.
It's easy to get into being critical of the inherent flaws in most acoustic gutiars - namely the way they gradually deform their structure under constant string loading - but in the case of this guitar, there was another vital piece of information at play. The guitar is 22 years old. This means that the action has barely moved in all that time from new; the saddle is pretty much untouched. That ability to withstand string loading and keep its shape makes THIS guitar a 'must-have' - a thousand times more desirable than a 1yr old guitar with exactly the same action.
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