Teamjeffo's first build! FS-1

nice mancave Jeffo, got to be happy with that. As long as there's a beer fridge too !
Interesting colour the bottle of single malt you had earlier in this thread

Great Work Jeffo! Is looking wonderful!

High five jeff, looks great...a labour of love

Even if you make your own scraping tool - normally a knife blade in a piece of dowel with a bolt to clamp it in place so you can keep a constant depth - I still occasionally slip and scrape some finish. Less often than doing it freehand, but still annoying. So a big round of applause for only making one small scrape on your first go at it.

Can someone please explain to me what it is when I keep seeing guitars being set up with the high and low E strings only?


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Normally test runs with the neck clamped in place just to make sure the strings are running nicely down the fretboard and over the pickup pole pieces, especially on guitars where you need to position the bridge yourself. This is never a proper set-up.

Simon, you're a guru. Thanks man


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Looking great Jeffo, coming along nicely

Question time boffins:

I'm upgrading the bridge to a Gotoh tune-o-matic, however the saddles need filing for seating the strings. To buy a set of files to do the job, I'm looking at $140 AUD or there about.

I've noticed on eBay their are some cheap and nasty files (https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/222480793687), and I'm wondering if these might do the trick as a one off? As a carpenter I understand the importance of having good tools, but $140 for a set that I'm potentially only going to use once is a bit of a stretch.


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Gibson use a set of stings to set up the guitar, then almost the last thing they do is hit the strings into the saddles with a hammer to notch them, then fit a new set of strings.

Otherwise (if you don't want to risk that), if you look at pre-notched bridges, you'll see that they don't have notches that are string-sized, they are simple V-shaped and all the same size/depth (well some do vary but it's rare). So all you need for the bridge is a low-cost triangular needle file.

You can of course use nut files to do it, but as you haven't got any, then I'd suggest the needle file route. Just make sure you mark the positions carefully first so that the strings are evenly spaced and the E strings are running parallel to the fretboard edges.