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Hi Michael. Thanks for the help. If you have been doing this for about a year then to me you are an expert and I you obviously have much more experience than I do. The question that I have is "what is low" and "what is high" because at the moment I don't actually know if what I have is low or high. It would be really useful to have some guidance on this.
Incidentally re. Julz's suggestion, I tried swapping the strings about so that I was using the lowest three from a set of six instead of 346 as I had previously. I can't say that the result was any improvement and probably slightly the opposite. I assume that the need for greater tension to tune the thicker string to the same pitch overcame the advantage of the heavier string against the finger. I think that for the moment I will go back to using the 3,4 and 6 as before.
Anyway, thanks to all for the help.
Hi Michael. Really appreciate the suggestions. The reason for wanting to lift the neck is so that I have more flexibility with the bridge height. At the moment I can't really lower it any more because of the pickup inside. With the neck higher I will have more freedom to change the height relative to the fingerboard. Thanks again for your comments.
Hi Mama. Thank you so much for all the help and also to everyone else who made suggestions. I am not allowed out tomorrow to play (apparently have to do some work and earn a little money) but should be able to do the neck and bridge adjustments on Wednesday and will let you know how that goes.
I also think that Michael makes a good point about practice. The point is that when you start you don't always know the difference between what is possible with experience and what will not work at all. Now I know that I should persevere so I will. Thanks again.
Just thought I would put up some pics of the instrument with the neck raised. It still needs some adjustment (neck angle in particular) but that will probably have to wait until next week.
The neck with the insert under it (the half-round end is visible). The piece of wood runs all the way under, glued to the original neck piece for strength. Also fills the gap that would have been left by raising the neck by 6mm.
The front view showing the piece of wood that is currently sitting under the bridge to raise it up. I will play with the height and when I think it is right I will make a new bridge (and probably decide to change it again the next day).
The guitar with the rhythm section
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