Andy40's STA-1HT

[Andy40]

Here's the unscathed back in all its glory



and the figure in the maple headstock is great....its very similar up and down the neck...



I checked the centreline and scale length today, its about 626mm to the end of the bridge humbucker rout which doesn't give a huge amount of room for bridge placement, but just enough.

You can see from the photo that for a cheap bridge the PBG bridge that comes with the kit is pretty cool. see in the shadow on the body that there are two lots of 6 x holes on the upright part of the bridge so you can either choose to string the guitar from the bridge (the other is for the saddle screws) or you can use the six string holes in the base plate and go for gold and make a string through.

[Simon Barden]

You can see from the photo that for a cheap bridge the PBG bridge that comes with the kit is pretty cool. see in the shadow on the body that there are two lots of 6 x holes on the upright part of the bridge so you can either choose to string the guitar from the bridge (the other is for the saddle screws) or you can use the six string holes in the base plate and go for gold and make a string through.

Surely with that type of bridge saddle, you have to use through-body stringing? Or else as it is, you'd have to run the string down under the back of the saddle, then up through the middle and over the top. Very fiddly indeed (if it's even possible) and it's not going to make intonation easy and is likely to break strings. The rear string holes would have to be at the bottom of the rear plate if top-stringing had any chance of working.

Do you get any rear string ferules with the kit?