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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on November 28, 2014 at 6:11pm

This was from a '70's Bill Cosby comedy riff. Kinda makes me wonder what he allegedly told those poor women he allegedly did not have sexual relations with.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Fred Johnson on November 28, 2014 at 3:34am

My point was that the scale length is probably not the same

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on November 28, 2014 at 6:08pm

Michael,

Correctamundo. Was just trying to get Dr. Mackay to think through the problem in all its grandeur before severing the spleen. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 26, 2014 at 9:23am

now ya starting to confuse me!

I said centre no! from as per drawing by Mr f Johnson now you say where the nut touches the string!  

when I said I'll cut a piece wood out I meant enough to fit a new piece for the 6mm bolt to sit as I've no room for the bolt other wise the strings will be rubbing the frets.

the plastic nut is only a small piece as it broke up with it being brittle when I took it apart,the rest of is in the bin or was.

I need to get this right as I don't want to make more only to find that the buggers are way out.

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Permalink Reply by Scott aka Farmer Ted on November 27, 2014 at 12:36am

I think our collective intention is to help a fellow member. Each has good merits. Bottom line is do as you wish, but be sure about it before physically altering the whole shebang. 

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on November 27, 2014 at 12:36am

OK 1st of all the neck is bent at about the 12th fret.

upon checking the stewmac fret etc. the fretts are 1mm out from the nut all the way up towards the sound hole.

no trus rod is fiited so not much I can do about that.

I set the tuner to 440 and that made a noticeable different ... open gdg,12th frets its just over gdg.

I don't think there's much I can do to this guitar with it being bent.

anyway thanks for being patient with me.

as for being tone deaf its not quite that bad.

I have problem hearing high notes/low notes but it between I'm ok.

I've had hearing problems since being a baby due to catching pneumonia .

whispering I cannot make out even into my ear.so that'll give you some idea. 

thats enough of me!

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