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The bridge feet should sit over the braces. The padauk might work well. I am building a flattop with a Padauk bridge because it is lighter than rosewood. This is supposed to allow it to react quicker to string vibrations. Just be careful with Padauk though because it tends to crack easily. Thanks B...

I am planning a new bridge for a Peerless archtop & wonder about the width or more specifically, where the feet should sit relative to the top braces. This guitar has parallel braces. Should the bridge extend to the braces or sit inside them? Also, I understand that the weight should be kept at ...

Thanks Mark, I realize this will be an unconventional mod, but I have anticipated a few difficult areas. One is to keep the finish, which is pretty thin BTW, from chipping at the edge. I hope to use fine sandpaper to level the wood binding, so the finish is not chipped. I will taper the binding away...

I have a Guitar Research/Peerless Eddie Durham archtop guitar that I am doing some mods on. Specifically, I have cut a different design for the sound holes. Previously f holes & am planning to bind the inside edges. Doing the binding because I want to practice doing it & because it's a lamin...

The main "difference" between long and short tailpieces seems to be the feel of the strings. Longer tailpiece (shorter over all strings) yields a tighter feel, conversely a short tailpiece (longer strings) offers a softer more relaxed feel to the strngs. There are mutes made for banjos th...

If you do your homework right, it won't cost you any more money or use up any more space to build a guitar of your own. I respect your opinion, but don't agree. ( Guess I need to do more homework) I have read about many kitchen table builds, so know it's possible, but I don't have ANY money to spen...

If you want to make a guitar them make a guitar. You can tiptoe around the process for years and dabble in one aspect or another, but until you make your guitar you will just be wondering. So go ahead and make your drawing of the instrument, acquire your materials, and get on with it. If you just w...

I bought a used Guitar Research(Peerless) Eddie Durham archtop & am doing some work on it. So far, have replaced the Tailpiece with a wood/brass hybrid, new wood pickguard, made a wood housing for a '64 DeArmond PU mounted to the PG, new wood trussrod cover & am now laying out new sound hole...

Anyone have any info about this design? Looks interesting, but it also looks like the D G string spacing is wider??? Unless that's just a photo distortion. It appears that the nut is used as a zero fret, without slots, & the block keeps the strings aligned. I like that, as it facilitates trying ...

Mario Proulx wrote:Chris Paulick, a member here, made a great video some time back on how he makes tuner buttons. Well worth a search(perhaps you'll need to search youtube)...

I think I saw that one.
Thanks,
kev

OK, thanks.

Cheers,
kev

Thanks, I'll just have to play it a while & see if the noise is objectionable. Decided not to change the slope of the pickguard. I am using the original PU holes in the neck to fasten to & if the PG were to slope down, it would block the screws. I would have to drill new holes or make a new ...

I have an old, '64, De Armond single coil that I have mounted to the wood pickguard on a Peerless archtop. I replaced the metal cover with wood to match. The PU is pretty microphonic, but as a result sounds wonderful. I was just thinking about changing the mounting to the neck extension instead of t...

I am looking for some info about making wood tuning buttons. I have seen some for sale that don't have a metal sleeve inside. Is this acceptable? I would feel more comfortable with tubing inside, but not sure how to make the flats to fit the peg. Any help is appreciated. Probably use Coco bolo, so i...

Ok, valid point Kevin, however intonation issues are not caused soley by the increased tension of fretting, but is mostly due to string stiffness and the phenomenom of inharmonicity. The Wikipedia article on the topic is quite well written if you'd like to read up. So the improvement would be minor...

OK, I'll try again! Last response didn't appear???
As regards the intonation, it seems that the compliance of the longer string would lessen the pitch change when fretting the string.

Cheers,
kev

So far, I am finding that the extra string length behind the bridge should help with intonation & maybe make a string feel a bit softer. Guess that would be a vote in favor of longer lower strings. Am I on the right track?
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kev

Can someone point me to some knowledge about the shape of the tailpiece? One of my designs is a reverse of the standard layout with the 6th string side being shorter. I would like to understand what difference the string length behind the bridge makes. Does that make sense? Most designs have the 6th...

Dave Gentner wrote:Stewmac sells a Teflon sheet that you can put in the fret slot. You then fill your chip outs with rosewood dust and a drop of CA glue. After it hardens you can easily remove the Teflon and sand the board.

Thanks, that sounds like a great solution.

Thanks,
kev

I have a rosewood fretboard that has several spots, well...... a lot of spots, that chipped out when I pulled the frets out. The brittle rosewood could not handle the abuse & now I need to fill the damaged spots. Don't have pictures right now, but most of the chips are about 1/8" or less lo...