what sharp eyes you have,
yes it is a bit close, the bridge is a wide string spacing one, I've got a narrow spacing bridge that I might fit, seems to play all right though
all the vintage tremolos suffer this problem, it's almost like necks were wider in the 50s
David
Wasps are the Katie Price of the Animal Kingdom - utterly pointless and bloody irritating!
The cure used to be a bit brutal.
Take the neck in your left hand, the top horn of the body in your right.
Push down on the top horn and yank the neck upwards - you'll hear a crack as the neck moves slightly
The top E should now be in the correct position.
Mike H wrote:I can see how that would work ~ basically moves all the strings up a smidgeon
Sort of. The angle of the neck relative to the body shifts so the strings run more centrally up the neck. I was repairing a bass for a mate once, his complaint was that the 'G' (thinnest string on a 4 string bass) was "falling off the edge of the neck...". Sure enough it was. What he didn't confess at the time was he'd dropped it! I loosened off the neck screws and shifted the neck slightly, re-tightened, and hey tesco.
The neck pocket in that bass was quite loose so I had a fair bitof room to set the neck at the right angle. Not all basses or guitars are quite as accommodating.
sadly the pocket is quite tight and the neck is in line with the bridge so not a lot of room to manoeuvre, this particular tremolo does have particularly wide string spacing, it plays ok so I'll leave it for now,
David
Wasps are the Katie Price of the Animal Kingdom - utterly pointless and bloody irritating!
Dave the bass wrote:The neck pocket in that bass was quite loose so I had a fair bitof room to set the neck at the right angle. Not all basses or guitars are quite as accommodating.
DTB
Ive seen some neck pockets that were so large you could lose a small child in there
I've sold the guitar to a mate of mine who fell in love with it
so I've ordered a Warmoth body and neck and will get Angela at http://guitarangel.co.uk/services.php to replicate the heritage cherry although I might go for a burst with lighter cherry in the centre either way it'll look good
David
Wasps are the Katie Price of the Animal Kingdom - utterly pointless and bloody irritating!