Thanks a lot simon for your constant useful inputs - i did have some suspicions about the pegs that the added thickness would give me problems, i havent finalized the install of anything yet, so there is still time to either reduce its entire thickness or use drillbit to increase the depth of the holes
Note ; Since i did remove a lot of material from the top of the tailpiece- the pins have dropped 6-7mm and i will be adding 10mm of total thickness, so it is more of a fine tuning
And yes it was poor placement of the straight edge but when i did string up two strings and they both held good action, so 10 more will certainly increase the action, here is a picture of when i test mounted low and high E and tuned them up
Oh yeah about the stewmac hardware, i loved the concept but i really want to do my own thing in that case, just want to get a heads up here if it appears reasonable, its a sketch and only displays what hardware it will interact with, so imagine it inside of the hollow
Those triangles mounted to the plate is just to move the point of rotation further away from the base and give more leverage
I hope it makes sense, to me it would be reasonable that you can mitigate most of the torque caused by the strings and thus put a stop to the bulging of the top, btw reckon steel wires under tension within the sound chamber of a guitar will affect it a lot?
What do you think? Is my plan waay over the top or am i gonna have greater success with the guitars stability in the future and not having to worry about string gauge and half steps up etc? and since its running 12 strings i reckon the problem is liable to reappear if not done right
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