Best way to widen a saddle slot?

[ken cierp]

Teeter volume 2 ---- Page 30

Improved version --- for $1,000,000 I'll send you a scan

[Dave Bagwill]

The check is in the mail!!
Thanks

[ken cierp]

The $1,000,000 check cleared -- Thank you

Scans sent --- post some pixs of the jig and results if you have time.

[Dave Bagwill]

Now here is a pic that I downloaded some time ago, and I don't know who to credit - Mike Doolin, perhaps, because I had written him about wide saddles.
He uses a thin guitar string to determine where, on the wide saddle, he needs to file the saddle for compensation.

I just cannot figure out how to use the method.

Any ideas?

[Tim Benware]

Start with the string in line with the saddle slant under all the strings.

If the string your tuning is sharp move the saddle string (ss) back, if flat move the ss forward. Mark the ss position front and back.

Move to next string and follow above procedure.

File the saddle around the marked positions.

[Dave Bagwill]

Tim - maybe I'm overthinking it, but does not the fact that there is a string between the actual strings and the saddle already pose a problem by making each string a little sharper that it would be if it was in direct contact with the saddle?

Maybe it is so little an amount that it is negligible?

Actually, the more I think about it, I think you're right on the money. :-) Thanks.

Have you used this method?