Still Scheming

[gardo]

On 10/3/2019 at 7:44 PM, Freeman Keller said:

I kind of lost track of the threads that I did here so I redid the tele one at TDPRI 

https://www.tdpri.com/threads/a-chambered-tele-ish-sort-of-thing.884657/

I also did a pretty complete one on frets and setup when you get to that point

https://www.tdpri.com/threads/basic-setup.952636/

If there is anything I can do to help just give a shout.   I'll be watching

Thank you Freeman  . One of the best tips I got came from one of your threads, don’t remember which one. This was setting the saddles to the lowest position and laying a straight edge on the neck and aiming for the top of the saddle. I thought it would be too low but tried anyway.

It came out great

 

 

 

[Freeman Keller]

That is a hold over from my acoustic work.   The rule of thumb for neck angle is that you want the fret plane to just hit the top of the bridge, which is the lowest you could possibly make the saddle.   Relief and first fret action will raise the strings off the fretboard by somewhere close 10 or 20 thousands.   If you want an action of, say 60 to 100 thousands then you need to raise the saddles twice that, in other words 0.100 to 0.150 or so.   That is well within the range of adjustment for any electric bridge as well as acoustics and gives you the ability to further lower it in the future if the geometry changes.     

Have been watching this off and on and enjoying the ride.

[gardo]

On 10/18/2019 at 3:58 PM, badpenguin said:

Nice work. I dig it. But.... no tort....?😪

Ok,  I had.a little time this afternoon so I knocked out a couple pickgaurds

[gardo]

Countersink the holes and dress the edges with a half round file and put it on for a test fit

I need to do a little more contouring but took some pics while the light is good. 

The difference between black and tort is subtle but nice. And of course no one likes the red but I did it anyway 

The more I look at the red the more I like it