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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
How's the intonation?
You can fix the first thing with the adjustment screw at the back - slacken the strings right off first - but you can’t fix the alignment problem easily. Filing down the saddles and re-cutting the grooves off-centre would work, but it would be a shame to hack that bridge. Ideally you need to plug the holes and re-drill. If it plays OK I’d leave it - the issue will be the low E falling off the side of the board higher up the neck, but you probably don’t play it that far up very often...
I would move the bridge screws in by about 2mm on the treble side and 5mm on the bass side first, that will give you a much better range of adjustment on the individual saddles.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Actually, ignore what I said about moving the treble side of the bridge 2mm back - if you just do the bass side by 5 or 6mm it will very slightly move the strings towards the centre - probably not by enough to fix the alignment unfortunately, but it's worth doing first.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I cut plugs from grain matched wood... don't use dowels as the grain goes the wrong way. Plugs will give a much stronger repair that blends in better too... althoguh with this bridge it will all be hidden.
after levelling off the plugs its simply a case of re-drilling in the correct position and redrilling a ground wire hole from stud to cavity
This bridge (Schaller 455 - think its discontinued, the 456 with fine tuenrs has been) has loads of adjustment. you have two big screws for overall angle of the bridge, and still have loads of individual adjustment on each saddle. It works fine with the posts an even distance from the nut (straight bridge) because you have so much adjustment on each saddle, so that is how i would re-drill the new post holes. If you get it bang on you don't even need the two outer screws (see pic below)
also, the string anchor is removable.... i think its installed backwards on yours. not too much of an issue, but those wraps are quite close to the saddles
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Its definitely worth doing I think, as it’s a great guitar and there seems to be real attention to detail in the build (except for the bridge position!). The neck is perfect for me!
But seeing the pickup cavity confirms the hand-made origin of the guitar - that’s definitely not a factory rout.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein