Positioning the bridge.
I screwed the neck in place again using my fishing line to double-check the alignment.
Measure the half scale from the nut face to the crown (peak) of the 12th fret (wire), in this case ~432mm. It's always a good idea to actually measure this on every kit rather than just assume as there can be some minor variation, and carefully measuring can help to reveal any faults with kit.
Double the half-scale for full scale, 864mm, and mark. The second line is scale plus 1" to help me as a guide for bridge intonation adjustment. Full scale (864mm in this case) is roughly where you want your most forward saddle positioned, so the bridge gets placed accordingly.
I'm using a Schaller 3D bridge on this which gives you a lot of flexibility but less intonation range than the stock bridge. It also needs to be positioned a lot further back than the stock bridge… like, at the very edge of the body back, to get the range of intonation adjustment that I want. How much further back? None, none more back.
But, there's a problem. The bridge ground wire on this kit runs to the middle of the bridge pup rout…
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