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aye - Lowdens are amazing, he's a bit of a genius is George. I'm amazed you can't buy Yamahas in Ireland
. May be worth a trip to the North, I'm pretty damned sure Matchetts in Belfast stocks them (mind you last time I was in was last year). -
Hello, Tommy,Welcome to our little zoo, and congrats on your new guitar!!You will get excellent advice here. First of all, listen to everything Gary Palmer, Guitar Stringer, Freeman Keller, and Bjorn Fjiord tell you. They are our resident luthiers and will give you expert advice.Opa John's advice is right on, too. There is a lot to be learned at Frets.com - great site.Glad to assist whenever we can, so don't be shy about asking questions.
welcome and congrats indeed
... once you have the strings off you can clean the fretboard with 0000 (thats four zeros!) grade steel wool, it brings it and the frets up nicely
. May be worth a trip to the North, I'm pretty damned sure Matchetts in Belfast stocks them 
(mind you last time I was in was last year).
... once you have the strings off you can clean the fretboard with 0000 (thats four zeros!) grade steel wool, it brings it and the frets up nicely
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+1 to this ... plus - if you're not experienced in setting up a guitar take it to a luthier and let him/her pop a new saddle in (and nut if you really want one) and then set up your guitar properly.
If you're keen on giving it a bash my favourite instructional site for setups is :
http://thbecker.net/guitar_playing/guitars_and_setup/setup_page_03.html
I made a previous post about a source in Taiwan of bone saddles via e-bay. It's not a bad way to do it as you order in amounts of 8 (see my post history for that one) so if you make a balls up of one, you have 7 more chances
