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Permalink Reply by carverman on December 23, 2010 at 4:18am

Here is the picture with the CB attached .

 

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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on December 23, 2010 at 5:37am

I have not made a 6 string but I mock mine up as I go so the neck hight/angle work with the bridge. Its hard to set up strings before the tuners are in so I use a straight edge and sight down it to see were the action is, aproximately as I go along. Yours looks good so far, and it sounds like you fixed the problem.

Permalink Reply by carverman on December 23, 2010 at 7:20am

I just cut through the epoxy with my razor saw/carving knife and inserted a 1/4 inch piece

of wood in the gap under it,  to raise the  tp end up slightly.

That took care of most of the action string height problem, now I''m working on the last detail

 before putting a fresh set of strings on it. the tail piece is sitting against a walnut piece on

 the lid,  and that is putting pressure enough to skew the lid with only tiny hinges. 

I've made up a a lid support piece that goes around the tone block and glued to the ends

of the CB to try and relieve some of the tension that the 6 strings are going to exert on the

 tail piece and the lid. 

As you can see..this is new territory for me..and I probably should have extended the tail

 piece block  out a bit and used a different TP design to accomodate the string tension..

but now I'm stuck with  my radical design.

The mistakes are lessons learned on the next one..which will be much better,

 because I will have a better idea of what not to do.

MichaelS said:

I have not made a 6 string but I mock mine up as I go so the neck hight/angle work with the bridge. Its hard to set up strings before the tuners are in so I use a straight edge and sight down it to see were the action is, aproximately as I go along. Yours looks good so far, and it sounds like you fixed the problem.