Acoustic Guitar Construction

yeah... the screws between the strings even. Probably to keep the bridge from tipping forward under tension? Not sure I'm quite diggin' this particular bridge.

I was strolling eBay and found this bridge - http://www.ebay.com/itm/400192985361?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_1265wt_1049 . I haven't see this type of bridge being used on an acoustic. Has anyone else seen/used it? How did it work out? One, I'm not sure if I like the id...

The two pins would be on the fingerboard plane -- Yeah - there are two locating pins... one at the top and one at the bottom. no where in my instructions does it say to use a radius bar on the top edge of the rim. Crap! You're right... now I'm confusing all the different processes available on the ...

-- does it have two locating pins? It's a bolt-on neck... one bolt. I assume you are going to follow the entire procedure for establishing the slope? That was my plan... from your website. As indicated on the tutor and the accompanying Martin factory video Are you talking about your tutorial? I did...

Ken,

You just made me think about this harder...

I could square off of the front of the neck and measure the difference of distance at the heel of the neck...

That should do it, right?

Glen

I'm pretty sure it's 1.5 degrees. I don't currently have any tools to measure it accurately.

Hi all, Reading Ken's topic "top edge contouring" he states "For the “000 deep body" in these photos the rise is the same thickness of 8 standard 3x5 cards." I'm getting ready to sand out my rims on my 14 fret drednought... can someone tell me how many "idex cards"...