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Comment by Carl on March 3, 2016 at 10:34am

Cheers gents, I've been staring at this thing for so long I just plain 'ol missed the obvious. If I bring the tuners down around two inches (give or take) and glue a fretboard on, the fretboard will sit just above the embossing (can tweak underneath if needs be) it'd be roughly where the front guard (fender to Americans) starts.
With that slight mod, I can make a smaller bridge that'll sit nearer the tail end of the box. It's actually a birthday gift for my Son-In-Law, he can't play but even he if doesn't play it, it'll get hung in his man cave. Oh and James I have problems carving the Sunday roast let alone carving a rider :-)

Comment by James O Lunsford on March 3, 2016 at 4:57am

Looks good you could carve a rider leaning over handle bars in Black and use Black Saddle would blend right in

Comment by Fomhorach on March 3, 2016 at 3:03am

Can you fiddle with the scale length so that the tailpiece becomes the bridge?

Comment by Mad Max Riches on March 3, 2016 at 3:01am

My hot rod tin can 6 string got the neck mounted above the centreline to miss all the pretty stuff. You may still be able to do something across your sound holes.