Tidying up an old build

AustrianJohn

This was the second guitar I built from blocks of wood. It's been through a few rebuilds already. It both plays and sounds good, but some of my earlier errors are still catching up with me.

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The tuner pegs are on the wrong way round, so I'll fix that. But the main problem is that the neck angle is such that I need to lower the bridge to get the action right, but the stop piece is too high and the string angle over the bridge is almost flat.

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And the bridge stop piece is working itself loose.

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So the plan is to rout a deeper channel for the bridge stop piece and drill holes that are correctly sized for the posts.

AustrianJohn

Bridge stop piece has been recessed.

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Angle over the bridge is now reasonable.

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Having put the guitar back together I found it was no longer earthed, so removed the strings and replaced the earth wire to the bridge. Tested all the earth wires before I put it back together - all ok. Put it back together again - there's still an earth problem. Bother - will have to wait for another day.

AustrianJohn

Finally got round to checking the wiring on this build. Was a simple fix - I'd wired the jack plug back to front. 

While working on this guitar I noticed that my soldering iron generates an amazing amount of electical interference. Playing through a practice amp in my workshop with the soldering iron on I could hardly tell that the earth hum had been fixed. Turned the soldering iron off and there was virtually no hum at all. So be warned, if you're checking out a hum problem - turn your soldering iron off first.