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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on April 21, 2015 at 2:49am

turn the intonation adjustment screws so that the saddles sit as far forward as they can while still riding on the screw and standing on the steel plate, then wind them back a tiny small amount, a quarter turn or so, then line it up there.  In practice each string wants the be adjusted a little bit longer than the scale length (depending on the diameter of the string, the height of your frets, action trigonometry, scale length) so yeah push em forward, then line it up, and you have maximum adjustment for each string, they will never want to be shorter than the scale length.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Hullin on April 22, 2015 at 5:07am

Hi, 

Thanks for the help...I'm all set!

Jeff

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Permalink Reply by Scott aka Farmer Ted on April 21, 2015 at 4:50am

http://www.stewmac.com/FretCalculator?gclid=Cj0KEQjw6tepBRDLqLnxoua...

Try this calculator. Enter your info (number of frets, scale and type of instrument, in your case, electric guitar). The result will show fret positions, but also at the bottom, there will be a reference for different types of bridges, and where to position them to allow for intonation adjustments.

Phrygian Kid's suggestion works too.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Hullin on April 22, 2015 at 5:08am

Thanks for this Scott...I'll be referring to it regularly.

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Permalink Reply by JL on April 24, 2015 at 1:02am

Scale Length - the distance between the inside edge of the nut and the inside edge of the saddle BEFORE adjusting for intonation.

right about where this red line is....

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Permalink Reply by Matteo R on April 25, 2015 at 2:35am

Hi Jeff, I suggest you to take a look to this website, where you can virtually build your neck: simply, enter the info needed, such as scale lenght, number of frets and strings, then you can see your modeled fretboard, with measures from nut and fret to fret.

It works the same way than StewMac's Fret Calculator that Scott suggested, but the one from ekips.org allows you to save a file of your fretboard for printing, there's no way you could make mistakes.

Here's the link: http://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/fretfind2d/

Also, the image posted by JL it's pretty clear to understand how to calculate the scale lenght; I suggest you to put the saddles at half of the screws, so you'll be able to do few intonation adjustments if you need.

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