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Re: Best way to widen a saddle slot?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 4:20 pm
by ken cierp
Teeter volume 2 ---- Page 30
Improved version --- for $1,000,000 I'll send you a scan
Re: Best way to widen a saddle slot?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 4:21 pm
by Dave Bagwill
The check is in the mail!!
Thanks
Re: Best way to widen a saddle slot?
Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 9:54 am
by ken cierp
The $1,000,000 check cleared -- Thank you
Scans sent --- post some pixs of the jig and results if you have time.
Re: Best way to widen a saddle slot?
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 7:29 pm
by 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?
Re: Best way to widen a saddle slot?
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:21 pm
by 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.
Re: Best way to widen a saddle slot?
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 12:19 am
by 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?