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Hi All,
I have been trying to find the procedure for checking neck angle with respect to an archtop floating bridge by placing a straight edge on top of the frets and seeing where it meets up with the floating bridge and saddle. I have been able to find the procedure online for flat top guitars but not for floating bridge archtop guitars. And, I am sure someone has posted it on the forum but my searches haven't turned up anything. Please let me know how this is done and what a correct result looks like. Thanks!
Bill
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01-26-2024 05:00 PM
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I don't know how that's done, because it's not usual to bother with measuring, because the bridge is usually adjustable. One place to look is Ken Parker's Archtoppery series on YouTube. He uses a non-adjustable bridge, but a totally different method of attaching the neck, and adjusts action by raising or lowering the entire neck. I don't recall how he measures the needed height of the bridge, but it could be as high or low as wanted, just by adjusting the neck height. If you haven't seen his instruments, you should take some time to watch his series, although it's perhaps too long and detailed for some. If neither the neck nor the bridge will be adjustable, then the method used for flat-tops should work.
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My rule of thumb for any guitar is to set the neck so the fret plane just touches the tops of the saddles at the very lowest adjustment. That almost always results in acceptable action and adequate adjustment range.
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