Adjustable Bridges

[TeiscosRock]

I was just sitting and thinking about ways to make my project a bit less expensive, and the thought popped into my head: What if I used a non-adjustable bridge? It seemed to work well for Japanese-made guitars back in the day (which was a Wednesday, strangely enough). Exactly how much would it hurt the intonation In the upper frets?

[JoeAArthur]

I was just sitting and thinking about ways to make my project a bit less expensive, and the thought popped into my head: What if I used a non-adjustable bridge? It seemed to work well for Japanese-made guitars back in the day (which was a Wednesday, strangely enough). Exactly how much would it hurt the intonation In the upper frets?

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Probably not much - would all depend on your choice of strings of course.

It wasn't only the '60 cheapie Japanese guitars that didn't have adjustable bridges and there wasn't much of a complaint about intonation problems. Gretsch for all those Chet Atkins models pretty much had a bar bridge. DanElectro's... and the Ampeg Dan Armstrong used a simple sliding piece of rosewood - just set the angle of the bridge piece so that the low and high E strings were intonated and play away.

[TeiscosRock]

hmm.. I may indeed have to try this. My Teisco's Upper intonation doesnt suffer much to my ears (though its not compensated for the high E string, and I rarely play in the upper frets anyhow). Is there some type of guide to how much of an angle to put the bridge at?

[Mr Alex]

The stew mac fret calculator will give you precise measurements for the bridge for your choice of scale length, including acoustic guitars and non compensated.

[Mickguard]

Have you seen this guitar: The Nebula

I still think it's one of the ballsiest guitars I've seen here...if only for the stealth pickup and the fixed bridge strip.

[TeiscosRock]

Yeah I read that thread - Thought it was awesome. So maybe I'll try a 30 degree angle (thats what the Nebula looks like it has) on the bridge.. no biggie.