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Permalink Reply by Tom T on July 27, 2015 at 8:01am

If I understand correctly, the neck is approximately level with the body and the addition of the fret board puts the string height such that when the strings are attached to the hard tail, the hard tail will not adjust the strings high enough to clear the frets.

If that is the case, I would recommend a spacer between the hard tail and the body to raise the hard tail high enough to work without further modification. Longer screws may work, but they would push the adjusters up at a fairly steep angle. That might affect the ability to keep tuning.

Besides, a nicely made spacer block would look cool anyway when finished.

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Permalink Reply by john mackay on July 27, 2015 at 8:23am

thanks Tom

so a spacer will have to do.

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Permalink Reply by sparky37 on July 27, 2015 at 5:43pm

thickness of the spacer is the question. I would recommend string height above the fretboard  about a 1/8" of a inch at the half way point of the height adjustment of the three string bridge. So you adjust up or down at the bridge to get the perfect string height above the fret board.

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