A while back I bought a Delta Grooves neck because, new to guitar building, I wanted to see how nice a neck could be. I finally put this into a nice Tabak box. Humbucker pickups, enclosed tuners, hardtail bridge.
The intonation is so whacked I gotta move the bridge back further. The sustain on this neck is beautiful. The humbucker is warm and gnarly with gain applied. As soon as I get the intonation fixed, I'll put a sound bite up!
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It is a nice git, I see the frets the same, it does look a little out, i hope you can move the bridge back without harming the face, you could make a new plate for the bridge out of aluminium, just a bit longer and use your existing mount holes if need be
you can lower the string height at the bridge with the 2 little allen screws in the bridge piece....
1) Measure
2) mark with pencil
3) Measure again
4) mark again with pencil, erase previous pencil mark, scratch head
5) Measure again
6) Feel better that marks line up
7) Mount
8) Cuss like a sailor 'cause it still came out wrong, lol
This is EXACTLY what happened! :)
Exactly.
Did the nut come with the neck or did you make it? On some of my builds when the intonation was off I discovered that I hadn't angled the nut slots enough so the string was contacting the nut on the tuner side rather than the neck side . This lengthens the scale by 1/8 to 1/4" depending on the nut width and can cause frustrating problems unless you figure out what's going on.
It came with the neck but I had to file the slots. Made a deliberate effort to file down at an angle towards tuners. Might be time to try Zero Nut? lol
I've had a similar problem with a zero fret when I didn't have the guide slots cut deep enough to allow the string to make good contact with the zero fret. Fomorach's suggestion to capo on fret #1 is a good way to see if the nut is the problem.
Have a look at your nut distance too (from first fret) and check that it's correct. If it's wrong it will throw up all sorts of problems.
There's an easy way to check this. Put a capo loosly on the first, tune up then check the intonation for the first 5-6 frets. Take the capo off then retune and check again the first 5-6 frets. The results should be the same.
alright... I put a capo on first fret, tuned up and .... the guitar is immediately playable. Gorgeous sounding!!!! Very nice all the way up the fret board.
Took capo off, tuned up (open GDG) and.... yuk. Sour notes all the way up.
Measuring from fretboard facing side of nut to where high G string touches bridge is 25 -1/2. Measuring from nut to 12th fret on high G is 12 -3/4. Measuring from 12th fret to where high G string touches bridge is 12 - 3/4.... But the more I look at this nut.... especially the bottom pic...
that test seems to suggest that your effective fret spacing from nut to f 1 is out,maybe the leading edge of the nut is rolled a bit , and the actual contact point is further towards the tuners
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