Has continued to work with tests on the local guitar. It got a saddle toning to begin with. Need something to demonstrate the oversaddle intonation on for visitors to the venue. This particular copy I count as one of the least successful GammelGura ever and I had given up hope for it. Without the saddle intonation and with a solid stable leg, it was not fun to play at all. A real wolf tone on D made you get a little sore in the ears from certain chords…
Used it as a test bench with different variants of composite stable legs. Tried several different types of wood (maple, rosewood, ebony, bubinga, birch and spruce) between 4 × 4 mm recessed bone pieces. Spruce was the type of wood that stood out, it felt like the lid in spruce got an extra boost of the same thing and gave the tone a little more space.
Tested further with 4 mm wide and about 8 mm high posts in legs across the stable leg instead of smaller inlays. Got a little more volume that way. Also tried with 6 mm wide posts, but then you approached the tone of a solid stable leg. The best so far is spruce with 4 mm wide posts in the legs under the strings.
The funny thing is that the oversaddle intonation with the best composite number transformed the guitar from a rather sad story to play blues on to a guitar with a beautiful and interesting sound that works for most things! Slightly lower volume than with solid legs, but everything else got better. String separation, evenness in volume between the strings, reduced wolf tone and the balance between bass and treble. All sound that hurts in the ears also disappeared, hard chord playing type troubadour does not feel disturbing at all but on the contrary soft and around the sound. Very good simply, especially if you know how it sounded to begin with.
The overside tuning means that everything is also correct 😉
I feel at home and will do this kind of stable leg in the future if you do not feel that you want the standard tone with a solid stable leg. I think you release more of the individual tone of the guitar with a composite stable leg, the solid stable leg forces on all guitars its own tonality (think that many GammelGura before have sounded very similar to each other).
