Hey Doc just a quick thought have you tried having turning the bridge around it should give you a few more mm's for intonation?
Hey Doc just a quick thought have you tried having turning the bridge around it should give you a few more mm's for intonation?
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Originally Posted by andrewdosborne
Yep, I tried that, and it didn't really make much difference, I'm sure that I'm going through the intonation-adjustment procedure correctly, it's just that the position of the saddles seems to indicate that there's something wrong somewhere, I wonder if the neck is still any good, it doesn't appear to have any twists or excessive bowing/warping in it, I've got the neck relief set to give a .012 inch clearance at the 7th and 8th fret for the two E-Strings when a capo is placed just behind the 1st fret and each e-string is fretted at the 17th fret, everything checks out, yet the string-intonation for each string seems to be very difficult to set correctly, and even when I think I've got it all set correctly it still sounds out, I've even tried taking the strings off and putting a brand-new set of strings right out of the plastic bag on the guitar, the strings are 46-10 gauge DAddarios, and even then the intonation is a hit-and-miss affair.
The installed tuning machines are a set of new locking Kluson Revolutions.
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