Dedmans ES-2V

[wokkaboy]

no worries Dedman, I would guess about 4mm has to be shaved off the bottom of the neck heel, think the strings will bottom out on the high end of the fretboard.
Maybe ask some guys who have built one to measure how far the fingerboard is from the body, I know Gav T has built one

[wazkelly]

Hi Dedman, mock build looks cool.

End of fret board height does look to be sitting a bit higher than you would expect but suggest waiting until you have bridge positioned where it should go and then re-check how things are. Some of these kits do have a larger than what appears normal gap from end of FB to top of guitar body.

[neverwas]

Grabbed some measurements of fretboard and bridge.

Top of crown on last fret; high e between 6 and 6.5mm, low E about 7.5mm from top of body.


Underside of strings at bridge; both about 17.5mm from top of body.


The difference in neck measurements would explain why I still need to take a bit more off the bridge base to get the action down on the high e side (and overall), so go by the bass side as a guide and the height at bridge would be better lower.
Hope this helps and doesn't confuse the issue.

Grant

[Dedman]

thanks Never, just what I needed, will get back onto it next week

[Dedman]

Today I sanded the base of the bridge to fit the curve of the top, shortened the ends a about 15mm each side, fitted the tail piece , reversed the order of the fingers so the low E has the long arm, ( looks better and from all accounts makes no difference ) and drilled an earth wire hole from under the tail piece into the switch cavity, not much room in there, the big pots I have wont fit through the F holes, Bournes mini's do, push pulls only just make it for depth. While I was doing that a package from Germany arrived with my Duesenburg tuners and switch knobs. I love the tuners already. You feed the string down the centre of the tuner post, cut it off on the back of the headstock and tune up! So simple. Tomoorrow I will fit the neck ( but not glue yet )

[Dedman]

Got the neck sorted today, took about 1.5mm off the bottom, filled the stop tail holes and gave it a grain fill with diluted timbermate. Sanded to 180, will let that dry and shrink for a day or so before sanding some more and starting primer coats. Will make a start on another 1 x12 speaker cab tomorrow while the ES "bakes". I'm waiting for a SM dremel router base before I can do any work on the headstock, its supposed to ship later today from my shipper.

[wokkaboy]

good progress Dedman, do the standard ES-2V kits have trapezoid markers on the neck ? pity yours has dot markers

[Dedman]

I actually wanted the dots Wokka, I dont really like huge markers

[wokkaboy]

ah ok Dedman we disagree on that one then. Got to love ebony fingerboards we agree on that !

[stan]

this is going to be a very sweet guitar

you can buy Duesenberg parts separately ? Do tell....