ihocky2 Posted November 6, 2018 Report Share Posted November 6, 2018 I’ve been away for several years after a couple rough builds that turned me off from building for a while. Life got in the way and I finally have the bug to start building again. Nothing like the last minute to decide that Santa needs to bring a guitar for my 6 year old son. But with a simple build that is also cleaning out some old scraps of wood it should be doable. It will be my version of a S-style, about 7/8 the size of the body and I am leaning towards a 23” scale. Poplar body, maple neck, walnut head and fretboard to be determined. Rickenbacker style bridge for a 1.938” string spread and two humbuckers. The two areas I could use some opinions are the nut width and the scale length. I think 23” should work, but I also pulled that out of thin air. The nut I am thinking 1.59” to make it a little narrower and thought 1.563” seemed too narrow, but had nothing to compare against. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted November 6, 2018 Report Share Posted November 6, 2018 Welcome back man, it's been a long time. SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty Posted November 6, 2018 Report Share Posted November 6, 2018 Fender uses 22-3/4 with 20 frets on the Mini Strat. I'm building an LP for my three-year-old with a 19 in. scale and 22 frets, but the nut width will still be standard LP with 1-11/16 string spread. It would be nice if there were more narrow-spaced bridge options for little guitars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihocky2 Posted November 8, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2018 I wound up switching to a standard hard tail bridge with a 2-1/16” string spacing. On the shorter neck it didn’t make a huge difference in the width. I’ve got the neck roughed out and the body shaped. I’ll start on getting the neck and fret board ready so I can cut the neck pocket and started locating cutouts. the second picture turned out a little dark, but shows the size difference when sitting on a strat sized body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistermikev Posted November 9, 2018 Report Share Posted November 9, 2018 i believe I have a strat with a 1 5/8 nut... really is only 3/32 bigger than what you propose and it doesn't feel thin at all. just my 2 cents. anywho, nice piece of popular? if it were me, and because I'm so frugal... I would have built to 24" sl because then it would easily be in the realm of "for me" if it ended up not getting enough attention! cheers and good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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