Just finished my first four string (GDgb)I had a nine men's Morris board hanging around so I thought I'd turn it into a guitar built the box with scrap and made the finger board out of beech and this time it's fretted with wood frets (coffee stirring sticks pinched from the local burger bar) and double hum buckets in the Gibson style, not sure if I should cut a sound hole as it's quite good without, I'm starting to feel quite confident about this building lark so I'm already looking at my next project(s) so I think next is a two string short scale bass with a tin can body and a pick axe handle
Dots are from a marker pen and the machine heads are mismatched cos that's all I had left
This hobby is so much fun and quite rewarding
Yep it's just pushed against the box by string pressure it moved a bit by set up it might be better if I got some left hand threads as then I think it would sit in the right place, I need to make the bridge a tad higher so I may pt a couple of washers under it at the ends or use a couple of nuts or a different sized nut and bolt not really done much research on bridges yet so any advice is very welcome
Make a base for it, a thin flat rectangle of wood with a groove in it to cradle the threaded rod saddle. that will keep it from rolling and give you that tiny bit more height you mentioned.
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is that bridge a piece of threaded rod just floating? how do you keep it from rolling when you tune / play and throwing the intonation off?
Make a base for it, a thin flat rectangle of wood with a groove in it to cradle the threaded rod saddle. that will keep it from rolling and give you that tiny bit more height you mentioned.
Nice job on that one! I bet it rocks with 2 humbuckers in it.