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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on September 24, 2013 at 9:39am

There is a third option: the trapeze tailpiece. I use curled or cutoff forks, or bent spoons for mine (see my photo album on my profile page). You could also do the Fender or Schecter string through the body and neck idea ( I think Dan Sleep posted a photo yesterday which shows this, even though the photo was actually showing how to add supports for a humbucker).

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Permalink Reply by David McQueen on September 24, 2013 at 9:48am

My dreadnought is only 20" long on the box. Smaller size guitar is probably about the size of your box. So maybe you want to treat it that way. Plan for the fretboard breaking over the box at the 12th fret if you want to be like a classical guitar, or at the 14th fret to be like a standard dreadnought or other steel string. Condiser using a tail piece and a floating bridge so you do not have to be,precise setting the bridge location at the start. That will put your bridge closer to the centre of the box.

Hope this helps

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Permalink Reply by Honsik on September 27, 2013 at 10:26pm

Okay I have decided. I use a acoustic floating bridge which I modified. Second I'm gone use a tailpeze something like a trapeze thing. Have to look for a hinge or something like it. Bridge is going to be spot on twice  the distance from the nut ( as nut to 12th fret).

To be sure I can adjust a little I made some eliptical hole in the box for the piezo wire so it is possible to move it for about 1/4".

Furthermore I'm going to use a single coil pickup from suntek, for which I also have to determine the location.

Has onyone advise for tje distaince strings to rails if the pickup.

Some photo's I;ll try to make next week.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Fred Johnson on September 28, 2013 at 7:10am

You could do a bridge similar to this

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