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Comment by Taffy Evans on February 22, 2020 at 2:31pm

I fully understand James, thanks for responding.

Here are a couple of ideas that may help give you some break angle for the strings at the bridge. Just to so some seeds and give you a lightbulb moment.

Comment by James Matthews on February 22, 2020 at 12:40pm

Taffy, sorry for taking so long to reply (manic/depression doesn't exactly have a schedule you can set your clock by).  The bridge is gonna' have to be down near the bottom of the pan (like... very near the bottom). =)   I haven't found what I want to use for a tailpiece yet, and I'm still flip/flopping on how I want to do the bridge, but I did get the top two peg holes cut off so that it's just the lower 4 (with new machine pegs in them).  So much nicer than the black plastic ones I removed from it.  I also haven't decided whether or not to add a piezo pickup.  I'll probably save that for a second attempt later just to see how it sounds. =)

Comment by Taffy Evans on May 21, 2019 at 8:15pm

Hi James, here's a look at old neck heaven, I've got enough there to keep me in six stringers for a while. With some, in the past ,I have removed the frets and sawn down each side of the truss rod to make  3-4 string necks.

Your photo may lie, but does that scale length put the bridge right on, or off, the back edge of the body? Probably doesn't, might just the photo angle.

Taff

Comment by the anonymous pick on May 21, 2019 at 4:40pm

meh .. just string a piece of jute through the top 2 holes  and use it as  the hanger. ;-)

Comment by BrianQ. on May 21, 2019 at 12:59pm

Good start  :)