My Diary - LPA-1, First time Pit bull Builder

[depictedminds]

Even thought the bridge is sitting about a mile in the sky, I've ran 5, 6 and 1 to see the alignment of the neck, bridge, saddles etc. etc. Alignment wise, I think it's not too bad - thoughts?

Note: The neck isn't clamped, and the bridge doesn't have it's pegs mounted as of yet - Not sure how I'd check the neck angle without really mounting the bridge, so it's firm enough to at least hang on to a string that's tensioned "Straight". The more I look at it though, the less and less Im worrying - nothing particularly untoward seems to be going on there outside of a little bit of creative filler and colouring.

Ideas, suggestions welcome - Im getting heaps of good info from you all so far!

[DrNomis_44]

Even thought the bridge is sitting about a mile in the sky, I've ran 5, 6 and 1 to see the alignment of the neck, bridge, saddles etc. etc. Alignment wise, I think it's not too bad - thoughts?

Note: The neck isn't clamped, and the bridge doesn't have it's pegs mounted as of yet - Not sure how I'd check the neck angle without really mounting the bridge, so it's firm enough to at least hang on to a string that's tensioned "Straight". The more I look at it though, the less and less Im worrying - nothing particularly untoward seems to be going on there outside of a little bit of creative filler and colouring.

Ideas, suggestions welcome - Im getting heaps of good info from you all so far!

Check to make sure that the two E strings are the same distance away from the edge of the fretboard, once they are the same you'll know that the neck is correctly aligned with respect to the body, Gibson give the following specs for the 12th fret action on their factory-built LP guitars (note that the specs are in imperial units):

Low E string 12th-fret action: 5/64ths of an inch.


High E string 12th-fret action: 3/64ths of an inch.


I'm not sure what the metric equivalents are, but if you're able to get the 12th-fret action to those specs without the bridge touching the body then the neck angle should be fine.