New Floyd Rose Trem for my Hot Rod Strat.

[DrNomis_44]

What's the nut to 12th fret distance? I'd never trust a flexible tape measure for accurate readings as the metal end is always out by a bit. If you haven't got a long metal rule, then try measuring again but start from say the 10" mark (so you are looking at 34.75" in total) as I find it's a lot easier to just add 10 to all the dimensions rather than any other integer.

But measure to the 12th fret. Gibson have changed their scale length and although it's been close to 24.75", a lot of the time it's been slightly different. Paul Reed Smith said that he took a ruler and measured a lot of old and new LPs and said it's 24 9/16", rather than 4 12/16" (which would bring the saddles further forward). Don't assume it is 24.75".

I tried measuring from the nut end of the fretboard to the 12th fret, and it measures 12 Inches and 9/32 inch, or going by metric (I used my steel ruler that measures in Inches and mm), 312mm.


Hmmmm.... I just tried checking the distance from the 12th fret to the bridge with a pencil mark on the steel ruler at 312mm and I think you're right, it looks like my tape measure was telling me porkie pies (lies).


I re-adjusted each string saddle so that it was roughly where the 312mm pencil mark on my steel ruler ended up when measuring from the middle of the 12th fret and here's a pic of the result:




Looks like I was wrong because my tape measure was lying to me....*note to self, do not rely on your tape measure being accurate, use your steel ruler in future*.


So going by that, it looks like there is nothing wrong with the positioning of the Nashville TOM bridge on my Gibson USA LP Studio guitar, well that's good to know, that's one less thing for me to worry about and I think that teaches me a valuable lesson, never assume that your tape measure is telling you the truth.

Looks like my tape measure is out by about 1/4 of an inch, or maybe at least 6.5mm or so.