![]() If you do use heavier gauge strings, you might want to de-tune when putting away the guitar. ![]() I now de-tune my Alvarez guitars when I put them away for longer period storage even though I use 11's on them. And those who own them should probably stay away from heavy string gauges, i.e., not bigger than. There may be no practical remedy (Search web for comments on it.). Anyone who looks at buying a vintage Alvarez should bear this in mind if the action is high. My 5056 has pretty high action on it, and these guitars are very bad candidates for neck resets, as the necks were glued with epoxy, not hide glue (which can be softened with heat). And actually, due to the neck attachment issues, I gravitate towards the 80's vintage, as they have had less time to have their neck angle change from string tension. To me, that's the first indicator that a guitar might be post 1980'ish. You'll see a lot of people claiming that they have, or are selling, 70's vintage Alvarez guitars, but have sound-hole truss-rod setup. I have another Alvarez from 1981-2, that adjusts in the sound-hole. Kornblum was impressed by Yairi’s commitment to his art, particularly his Spanish-style guitars. Kornblum met Japanese luthier Kazuo Yairi in the late 1960s Yairi was part of a revered family of luthiers who’d made world-class instruments for generations. Louis Music’s line of Spanish-style guitars. As you can see from the response from SLM, the headstock truss-rod adjustment was on the earliest Alvarez guitars. The Alvarez name was originally given to St. FWIW: I have the same guitar, and it is around the same vintage as yours, with a 4 digit serial number and the headstock truss-rod adjustment.
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