Explorer In Need!

[slayer63636]

i recently scored a home made explorer guitar body. problems are that it looks off (im ok with that) and it dosent sound right. it can hold in tune and the open notes are good but when i fret notes it sounds off. i have a jackson KV4 and a strat and they dont do this. i have tryed to ajust the intonation but no matter how faw away or twords the neck i move it always says higher than is sould be (1/2 step above). Im thinking it could be that the tail peice and the bridge are too close too the neck but im no expert. if u can help i would really apriceiated it. if u wanna see a pic of it e-mail me at cyberpimp3000@hotmail.com

[bluespresence]

What's the scale length? Whatever it is take that and divide by 2. Measure from the nut to the 12th and from the 12th fret to the bridge. Those measurements should be equal.

eg: My bass has a 34" scale. Take 34/2=17. So, from the nut to 12 is 17" and from 12 to the bridge is 17". It sounds like you are on target and the bridge is not in the right place or the guitar was built for a different scale length than the neck you're using.

Hope that helps!

[slayer63636]

ok it is off. the strat neck is set up for a 25.5 scale and my expolorer is at 24 inche scale. so what i need to do now is to pull out the bridge and the tail peice and studs, then use wooded dowels and filler and then remount the tail stop and the bridge. i might as well remount the pick up location since it seems to be too far up near the neck. if anyone out there has a better way of filling the holes please post a reply.