Well, it’s been strung and played a bit.
A faulty barrel jack caused some swear words, along with a bad HB Connection to the mini on/on/on. These have been replaced/resoldered and it is all sweet.

One of the things I had not scoped properly with the Schaller hannes bridge is the height adjustment, it is a screw under the front edge of each saddle
This is a little fiddle when strung up. It does provide a good range raising the saddle but is limited in lowering if you need to.

At the moment the bridge end action is a little higher than I’d like, but this is also in part to the Graphtec nut I made which is sitting far higher than needed



It definitely needs to come down at least a mm on the low side and probably a smidge on the high side. Once I’ve done that then I’ll probably drop the saddle heights some as well.

It sounds good. It has been 2 years or more since these pups were fired up (both have been recycled from the SC/HB/SC arrangement on the original FrankenWashie) and they still sound smooth and cool as I’d remembered them.
The neck feels good under hand, it’s certainly not a shredder feel but it’s comfortable for thumb on back playing or thumb grabbing play.

We’ll see how it shapes up and settles in over the next little while. I didn’t have a set of kit strings to throw on it, so it has a set of MMF 11-52’s on it, which should give it some pull and show me how the neck is going to react and move.

Still going to remake the covers, really not happy with how they turned out. This initial testing also makes me wonder if I should have done an arm and belly cut. Perhaps this might be best left to a future revisit. For now, I am calling this one done.



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