Actually you can do it now or even after the finish but when you do it after the poly make sure you use the drill in reverse for a first few spin until it punches a hole into the wood and then then use the forward drill so as not to chip the finish
Actually you can do it now or even after the finish but when you do it after the poly make sure you use the drill in reverse for a first few spin until it punches a hole into the wood and then then use the forward drill so as not to chip the finish
Thank you! I might just do it now, so that I don't have to agonize over it. My biggest concern is the placement of the bridge. The scale length is 34, but I've read that to measure it for sure, you measure from the inside of the nut to the 12th fret, and then double it. Since it's a fretless, and the dot markers are in the middle of the fret rather than the fret itself, I don't know exactly where the 12th fret is.
So I'm thinking of just measuring 34 inches from the inside of the nut to the middle position of the saddles and go with that. Hopefully, that will allow me the wiggle room I adjust the saddles for intonation. And I also have to make sure that the bridge is centered so that I don't have the lowest or highest strings flop off the fingerboard. My first kit was a guitar routed for a Floyd Rose, so the poles were pre-drilled. This is all new to me. But I imagine I'm just making it out to be bigger than it is.
https://www.stewmac.com/fret-calculator/Originally Posted by robmyre
Thank you! I might just do it now, so that I don't have to agonize over it. My biggest concern is the placement of the bridge. The scale length is 34, but I've read that to measure it for sure, you measure from the inside of the nut to the 12th fret, and then double it. Since it's a fretless, and the dot markers are in the middle of the fret rather than the fret itself, I don't know exactly where the 12th fret is.
So I'm thinking of just measuring 34 inches from the inside of the nut to the middle position of the saddles and go with that. Hopefully, that will allow me the wiggle room I adjust the saddles for intonation. And I also have to make sure that the bridge is centered so that I don't have the lowest or highest strings flop off the fingerboard. My first kit was a guitar routed for a Floyd Rose, so the poles were pre-drilled. This is all new to me. But I imagine I'm just making it out to be bigger than it is.
You can use the stewmac fret position calculator and choose bass to find out the what should the 12th fret position for your scale length be and the As usual reverse it to the bridge. Ideally if you scale Length is 34 inches then 12 fret should be ideally be at 17 inches from the lower side of the nut ( Measure to the saddle string side) . Also make sure there is about a 3 to 4 degree angle (3 to 4 mm lower) on the thicker string side to compensate for the intonation of thicker strings
There is a post here on how to fix bridge for correct intonation. You can refer that too
Last edited by Drashkum; 17-03-2023 at 01:03 AM.
Awesome! Thanks!
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