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Thanks. I have the same problem with my YB-4. Sounds like proper strings are the solution

Thanks. I came to the conclusion I was over thinking this. Words of wisdom given to me long ago (by myself) were "JUST DO IT!!!" . Words to live by.

Since I bought the cheapest kit I could find...

Just received my YB-4 kit but I am stumped. Setting the neck properly requires lining up the two outside strings but that needs a bridge for the other end of the strings. But without locating the...

Thanks. You seem to be everywhere and I am glad.
I thought about strips of credit card. Good to know about choosing something besides metal..

I've recently finished a bass kit. I have determined i need to shim the neck (neck is straight, bridge is as low as it go and strings still too high). A coupla .032" washers would do the trick but I...

What luck. I knew it was a silly idea but was just day dreaming.
Now a more realistic question: Adjusting the nut height. If my fingers had the grip of a C-clamp fretting the first fret would be no...

Thanks. I thought about the spring idea myself. And strings with those stupid caterpillar windings give me grief elsewhere.
Now that I have this beast (Nyx is her name) built to my satisfaction I...

Well, I finished the beast. No buzzing from the splinters but several frets need some work. I ended up epoxying the two rear bridge bushings (one of them had no support underneath the guitar top) and...

What luck. That's the way I put them on.

I'm leaning more and more back the thru-the-body ferrules. The screws from behind might not have enough of the center block to bear against without...

I may be over thinking this. What is wrong with drilling a few holes through the bridge plate and screw it down?

Anybody have a picture of how these tuning machines are mounted? I see there are...

I could put screw driver slots in the top. With the stock bushings I'm guessing I will have about 6mm thread engagement on both sides of the guitar. Seems like enough for 8mm screws but I would feel...

Ooooh. I will think about this one. The threads are only 1/2" long. I could turn my own bushings with full length threads. with the thru-bolts they wouldn't need to be knurled.

hmmmm............

Just got my kit today. Thank you.
I've read the horror stories from fender3x and Roger79. The bridge bushing holes miss the body center block. The threaded studs suggested by Simon Barden, in this...