New bone nut & saddle :: 2003 Garrison G40-CE [5.5 lbs]

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An interesting dreadnought cutaway in for a new bone nut and saddle.  All of the braces are made of carbon fiber.  Even the neck block is carbon fiber!  The neck is a bolt-on and one of the inserts split the stacked heel and needed to be repaired.  This guitar got two spots on the vlog - one video on the saddle and another on the nut.

Split heel :: Garrison G40-CE

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A Garrison dreadnought cutwaway with a split heel.  The neck construction is a 5 piece stacked heel and the heel cap laminate is split through the glue joint.  This is a bolt-on where the lower threaded insert in the heel lands dead-center of this glue joint and has separated the two.  I worked in some glue and closed the joint with a clamp.