I don't know what you guys are doing, but I have never cut myself with the copper tape.... :D
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I don't know what you guys are doing, but I have never cut myself with the copper tape.... :D
I cut myself a lot during the first time, the second was flawless... I don't know what I was doing either...
Well it obvious that I don't know what I'm doing either. :pQuote:
Quote from dingobass on April 17, 2013, 18:37
I don't know what you guys are doing, but I have never cut myself with the copper tape.... :D
The problem was that stuff is so sharp I hadn't realised I cut myself until I started getting blood on the copper. But not to worry, it matches Carmine Gypsy just a treat.
rob
If it matches, then I just wasted $40 when I could have just bled all over the wood!!! Now you tell me!
Hey Gav, I've heard of people "bleeding for their art" but that might be taking it just a little too far. Besides, unless you are an alien it won't help you much with "Emerald Isles" ;)Quote:
Quote from Gavin1393 on April 17, 2013, 22:01
If it matches, then I just wasted $40 when I could have just bled all over the wood!!! Now you tell me!
rob
OK Ladies and Gents, Boys and Girls, Luthiers and others.
I must admit that with a fair bit of trepidation it is time for me to start (queue dramatic music) ..... the ASSEMBLY!!!!
Drilling holes everywhere is so final. I apologize if I have missed something in the Forums, I have read the thread started by Dmac about aligning the neck, but that assumes that the bridge is already in place.
To me, its a Catch 22 (a Movie reference that some of you under 30 years old, might have to Google) ;). How do I set the bridge position without the neck being in place and visa versa. A whole lot of moving targets going on there:/
A Hand Holding approach and terminology applicable to the dim witted is totally acceptable, even encouraged.
Any help greatly appreciated, I have procrastinated long enough.
cheers
rob
Hi Robin
The NECK absolutely needs to be in place before you attempt to position the bridge.....
The neck must be fastened to the guitar body before you position any choice of bridge. A key factor that determines where the bridge will be positioned on the body of the guitar is the point where the neck meets the body. Scale length is vitally important.
All individual saddles must be set close to the front of the bridge. Now take a long ruler and measure the scale length from the front of the nut (or middle of the zero-fret) and position the middle of the saddles at this point. The bridge is then located centered to the fingerboard and its front parallel to the frets and screwed on. If you don't have the long ruler measure half of the scale length from the actual 12th fret.
Setting the intonation (compensation): Put the strings on, tune and stretch them lightly to shorten the time they need to settle. Retune. Now compare the pitch of an open string to its pitch when it is depressed at the 12th fret. You might expect that it should be equal but it isn't. When you depress a string its pitch becomes higher than it anticipated be because of the slight increase of string tension when you do so. Therefore the actual vibrating length of all strings must be made longer than the scale length in order to compensate for this fact. This is adjusted when you set the intonation of a guitar. An electric guitar usually has an adjustable saddle and the necessary compensation is therefore easy to adjust by screwing the saddles further away from the nut. Don't forget to retune every time you change the string length.
Make the vibrating string length longer until both pitches are equal. That's all. You will notice that the bass strings need more compensation than the treble strings. It might be necessary to recheck the intonation after a while when the strings have settled in completely.
Check my article here for more:
http://pitbullguitars.com/?page_id=4...iewtopic&t=186
Gav, the virtual ink wasnt even dry on that post. 8OQuote:
Quote from Gavin1393 on April 19, 2013, 14:08
Hi Robin
The NECK absolutely needs to be in place before you attempt to position the bridge.....
Thanks so much for the speedy reply. The neck it shall be.
Thanks mate,
rob
Edit: and thanks for the follow up post. So much great information in both those post. I can now proceed with some level of confidence. :)
What a great community we have here.
In terms of the ink not being dry, the Pest has raised the bar in terms of response time, keeping the rest of us on our toes.
It's a scary task if you arent sure and it will certainly result in a cringe-worthy guitar that never plays in tune if you get it wrong. So I hope I have kept it simple enough because it is fairly simple when you have done one or two!
When the time comes to do the intonation then follow the procedure in the intonation setting post. :)