Happy New Year to you all, there seems to be a flurry of new builds now which are interesting.
I managed to pick up a chest infection over Xmas so have a couple of extra days off work - hooray !
Have been messing with the Crimson Stains, I bought the 'shots' which have to be diluted to taste
using droppers and small bottles and applied them to sacrificial veneer to try and get a feel for what I want.
Still not sure so onto the 'problems' and advice sought please.
Finally sorted a headstock shape that is doable with my limited tools.
My biggest problem seems to be in the bridge positioning.
Earlier in the thread I was given some good advice on this.
Did a dry fit of the neck and bridge and using a long metal ruler moved the bridge to try to get
the saddles on 25.5 inches.
As can be seen, with the bridge hard up against the pickguard the magic 25.5 scale length is a few
mm's short of the saddles - ooer missus.
The ruler is at the zero fret end of the nut, OK on the 12th fret (expected) but still short of the saddles.
The only way I can see to move the bridge closer to the neck is to file the pickguard.
Two places to do this as I see it, first at the bridge end of the guard and secondly at the neck end.
The neck end seems safer as the cut/filed end is under the neck so will not be seen but
that will change the relative position of the neck pup.
It will also need some of the wood taking away but I have a Dremel so can do that.
Any thoughts ? Have I got this wrong ?
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