Marze take 2 - TLA-1 Rosewood/maple neck

[gavinturner]

Headstock looks great! Did you get the bridge position sorted? If you want to be in no doubt then Stewmac's fret position calculator is your friend.

cheers,
Gav.

[Marze]

Today's effort was cleaning up my chiseling with better chisels and a dremel. All fixed now, the tonerider bridge pup fits in the route and it is now shaped correctly:
Before -


After -


I have it in the correct place based on basic measurements from before. I will check Stewmac's fret position calculator to make sure it is correct (thanks for the reminder Gav).

The thing that snookered me today was drilling the through body string holes. I got it all lined up and then the drill press was not deep enough to reach where the holes needed to be drilled. Lots of cursing and attempts to gerry rig up an alternative and I gave up. My practice drilling 'freehand' was not as accurate as I would like.

So anyone go any suggestions for how to drill nice straight parallel holes without a drill press?

[Marze]

Headstock looks great! Did you get the bridge position sorted? If you want to be in no doubt then Stewmac's fret position calculator is your friend.

cheers,
Gav.

Hi Gav,
Double Checked with Stewmac's Fret Calculator and now I am little more confused as I am not sure what he means with the measurement?

Bridge placement for 645.800mm scale length

Distance indicated is from the fretboard edge of the nut to center of forward-most mounting screw or pivot post.

Telecaster® style bridges = 652.131mm (± 0.5mm)

What is the centre of the forward-most mounting screw?? Is that half way up the middle screw of the three saddle screws? The measurement would make sense if this is the case.