first acoustic guitar build cont'd...need to buy a bridge
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MaineGeezer
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Re: first acoustic guitar build cont'd...need to buy a bridge
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When things are bad, try not to make them any worse, because it is quite likely they are bad enough already. - French Foreign Legion
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Tomcat
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Re: first acoustic guitar build cont'd...need to buy a bridge
Thanks, Maine. One of the two center strings, the G or the D,, makes sense, so the G is not a big surprise.
I think it's Edwinson Guitars or maybe another of my inspirational sites, that promises building in string-specific compensation, into the saddle. It never describes how it's done (proprietary? it's a selling site more than a teaching site, and fair enough. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat.) But I wonder, if you really wanted precision, and did Maine's test on both E's and the G, based the angle on fitting close to those three, and adjusted compensation in the bridge, string by string you'd have it just right.
What I *DON'T* have a clue about is whether this is even important and to who. Maine's 1/8th inch difference from E to E may very well all that is ever needed, and the string by string compensation just a useless distinction.
I do not have the kind of ear to have much chance at hearing any such distinction, truth be told. But somehow I hope to learn to make a guitar that I bond with. And maybe for others, as a bonus. Someday.
I think it's Edwinson Guitars or maybe another of my inspirational sites, that promises building in string-specific compensation, into the saddle. It never describes how it's done (proprietary? it's a selling site more than a teaching site, and fair enough. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat.) But I wonder, if you really wanted precision, and did Maine's test on both E's and the G, based the angle on fitting close to those three, and adjusted compensation in the bridge, string by string you'd have it just right.
What I *DON'T* have a clue about is whether this is even important and to who. Maine's 1/8th inch difference from E to E may very well all that is ever needed, and the string by string compensation just a useless distinction.
I do not have the kind of ear to have much chance at hearing any such distinction, truth be told. But somehow I hope to learn to make a guitar that I bond with. And maybe for others, as a bonus. Someday.