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When ordering bridge pins or just purchasing OTC you need to know if your old ones are 3 degree or 5 degree pins. It is very inportant to get the right ones. I just read a good article on the proper way to install new strings and bridge pins (don't remember the site) that also showed how to bevel the ends of the pins so the ball ends of the string don't hang up.

nela
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Changing out the bridge pins, saddle and the nut with harder materials WILL inprove the sound, sustain and overall clarity of your guitar. Bone, tsqu, ivory work well on the saddle and nuts. Plastic bridge pins wear out easy and if the ball end of the string is not set against the bottom of the bridge plate correctly can cause slippage, Even with the harder bridge pins it is very important to set the ball ends in the right way. Beveling the ends of bridge pins will help in this. It's always the little thangs.

Nela
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Jeff, I went to the site you provided and it is one I had gotten too from another portal. Their acoustic page forum has no information and the posts are 2 and 3 years old. This DY72 does not have the name Alveraz anywhere on the guitar. The only name is K Yairi on the headstock and the soundhole label. It also list the builder as Kazou Yairi. I called St Louis Music Company and talked to their support guru and was told that the Alveraz / Yairi and the K Yairi are different guitars and they have little info on the K Yairi. Kazou Yairi apprenticed with Alveraz Guitars and that was how the Alveraz / Yairi was started and sold in the US. When Mr Yairi went back to Japan he began handbuilding the K Yairi guitars that were only sold on the international markets. SO i'VE BEEN TOLD. Anyway, from the lack of information I'm finding on this guitar I'm wondering if it is unique here in the States. I do know it's well made, play great and sounds awesome. I've carried it to our local music store where I was again told the guitar was of excellant quality, handmade but it was not a Alveraz. I do have the serial numbers as well as another set of numbers on the neck block that I know Martin, Gibson, Taylor and others use to obtain the history of their guitars. This DY72 is 25 years old but you would think there would be some information, somewhere. I'm just trying to find out where somewhere, is.

NELA

Thanks for the compliments, ya'll. Not bad for a 25 year old guitar, is it.

Nela

Thanks for all the song suggestions. Now. who wants to help me post some photo's? Topdown offered but I haven't been able to contact him. If someone will send me a PM I'll share e-mail addresses and send the photo's to them for posting. Any help would be appreicated.

I got around to changing strings on the 12 string, yesterday, and was suprised that it only took me twice as long as it usually does. While I had the strings off I cleaned and pollished EVERYTHING, rotated the tires, changed the oil and she really looks good. I did discover that I will need sone new bridge pins but those are something I'll have to order. I did find some hard ivory pins that are only $90.00. Oops, that is for a set of 6 and I need 12. Guess I have to go the ebony route. If I can talk my wife into getting a 2nd job I do have plans to change out the nut, bridge and the bridge pins to better materials. But's that's another story, as well.

Nela

Welcom. Len. Sorry to hear of your problems. As a starting point try Stewmac. Just do a googler search.

nela

Zurf, what I typed in my post and wut you read is 2 different things. No where did I say to get rid of wut you got I said" tell the wife that all 3 guitars broke and you needed to get new one's". Once you convience the wife you got broke guitars you gotta figure out a good place to hide them. Get the new guitars in the house, then over a period time you sneak the old one's, with new strings installed, back in the house one at a time. If you ain't sneaky enough to accomplish this on your own please send $19.95 for the complete 3 CD lesson assortment. These lessons come with a money back guarantee. There is an addition service charge for the guarantee. Cost for this service is $24.99.

Nela

Zurf, don't worry about changing the strings. Tell the wife that all 3 guitars broke and you need to buy new ones. Your missing a great opportunity, here.

Nela

The problem with my meds was twofold. The meds was affecting my blood sugars and that was making me feel bad plus being out in the sun while taking an expermental chemo drug for the kidney cancer caused the rash and, per the doctors at M D Anderson Hospital, caused my exposed areas to "cook" from the inside out causing the peeling. If you was to take the most severe sunburn you ever had then multiply it times 2 you'll have an idea of what I went thru. The doctors took me off my meds for a short period to let my system clear up but want to keep me on what I'm taking because it's working and and I'm getting excellant reports on my blood work and scans. Just hate not being able to get out in the sun unless I'm wearing long pants, long sleeve shirts and a hat. Then you add the A-fib I'm going thru plus a second stint. Where does this crap stop!

nela