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Comment by Penny Nelson on January 22, 2012 at 11:00pm

What a great idea for adjusting the bridge height.... bridge adjusting do hickies

Comment by bemuzic on January 22, 2012 at 12:05am

yeah I've heard about the 3rd thing...but often you can't get the right brake angle for the strings unless it's nearer to the end of the box...

Comment by Penny Nelson on January 21, 2012 at 11:59pm

Yeah get back to me at build 200 and maybe I'll have a better idea. But I'm very happy with the sound so I'm sticking with the tuning fork placement concept. Its roughly one third from the base of the guitar. and then you play around from there. It depends on the material the beast is made out of etc.

Comment by bemuzic on January 21, 2012 at 10:27pm

thanks...mmm unless you build loads of them exactly the same but try out different bridge placements it's always going to be hard to tell

Comment by Vinylhed on January 21, 2012 at 1:52pm

That looks gorgeous,I love the art deco styling. A truly wonderful looking guitar, a bakelite beauty.

Comment by Penny Nelson on January 21, 2012 at 1:12pm

Thanks all for the comments. B, its a 23 inch scale length tuned presently to GDGG with A=442hz which apparently gives better harmonics etc. It is a weird proportion - it stemmed from a discussion about placing the bridge on the sweet spot on the box & locating that using a tuning fork. So the bridge placement in this case wasnt for visual aesthetics. The sound hole is located next to a sweet spot - the concept being that the sweet spot is where the box vibrates the most in that area - so thought I will put the sound hole next to one of those to see if it maximises the sound. Bit hard to tell though because of the amount of bracing that ended up inside the box. Whilst I was careful not to have it impact on the sound board I'm sure it blocks the sound from bouncing around in side the box. I think Hoov was part of that thread about tuning forks etc I know Roadkill was.

Comment by bemuzic on January 21, 2012 at 4:42am

you must've told me, but what scale length is it?...the neck looks short, but I think that's because the box is so big?

Comment by Randy S. Bretz on January 21, 2012 at 4:35am

Awesome Penny...luv the deco look !!!

Comment by Hoov on January 21, 2012 at 4:15am

Looks great Penny.  Nice follow-through on the Deco style!

Comment by Penny Nelson on January 21, 2012 at 3:11am

Thanks MJL - I'm intending to :D

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