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Old 01-12-2020, 09:37 AM
jricc jricc is offline
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Default Sentimental Guitar Repair - help needed

I just reaquired my high school acoustic, a 1974 Penco A18. It's a nice sounding Martin knockoff, supposedly a "lawsuit" guitar made in Japan. I sold it around 1976 for $50 to a friend to buy an Ovation. I recently reconnected with that friend who told me she still had the guitar. Long story short, she was going to donate it and instead gifted it to me.

I got it back yesterday and the guitar had 3 strings on it and probably hadnt been touched in 10 years. So i cleaned it, lemon oiled the fretboard, put on fresh strings. Everything appears to be in decent working order ie tuners, truss rod.

The action up to the 7 fret is ok, beyond that its pretty high. The saddle can't go any lower, so it looks like a neck reset is in order. But a reset makes zero economic sense...The guitar is important to me for sentimental reasons...

I dont need a guitar for slide, are there any other options for making the guitar playable?
Thanks in advance.
joe
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