GR 1 SF build

[Dougr]

I finally got the 'Bigsby' lookalike installed together with the roller bridge. I used fishing line to get everything aligned to check clearances etc. The roller bridge will need some further attention during the intonation stage but so far so good. The only thing I cannot work out is how the front of the 'Bigsby' is attached? Screws?? There doesn't seem to be much 'meat' (thickness) on the body to just have screws through less than 3mm of wood. Any suggestions from the wise ones out there?

[Dougr]

Big Day!! The guitar is finished & all I have to do now is get the intonation sorted to my satisfaction but it works. Probably needs a few weeks to settle in. I have put a video on You Tube
https://youtu.be/17hhfOtgX98 or just search for Doug Rorison

[BuffaloGhost]

Great build and video mate!! Just starting to worry about getting my Electrics in as iv already glued the neck in! Ha ha. This should be fun.




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[FrankenWashie]

Great build and video mate!! Just starting to worry about getting my Electrics in as iv already glued the neck in! Ha ha. This should be fun.




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Youl be able to use the same tubing trick, but you will have to go in through the pup holes now BG. I’d thread your tubing though your holes first get it set On your pots and switches first then draw them through as Doug did.

[Dougr]

Hi mate, hope you got those electrics sorted. I put a roller bridge on mine with DaDario strings & it works a treat. Really happy with it. I will try to do a video of a sound check soon & put it up on YT.

[TZK321]

very nicely done!

[Dougr]

https://youtu.be/0IymGgImBVU Sound Check video up on You Tube now

[DarkMark]

Nice one Dougr. Thanks for the sound demo.

[Dougr]

Thanks Mark

[Tadhg]

Well done Doug.

Quick question - any reason for going with the acoustic strings, rather than electric strings? Bronze wrapped strings (like D'addario 80/20 Light 12-53's) don't give the same output level as electric strings, as the bronze wrap impedes the magnetic interaction of the steel core of the string and the magnets in the pick up. You're generally better off using electric strings on anything with a magnetic pick up. Like D'addario XL145 Heavy 12-56's, which are made for electric. Or Ernie Ball 12-56 'Not even slinky's'.

What triggered me was that, in the video, you described a set of strings starting at 12 gauge as 'light'. 11's on an acoustic is extra light, but extra light on an electric is 7's (as used by Billy Gibbons. I can't comprehend using anything that light...). 12's on an electric, well, they're not even slinky!