Intonation not right

[mart]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1359929512' post='1962298']
Yep but only 'cos it's making you sound all Scottish.
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Ah, yer a thrawn wee nyaff icastle!

I'm takin ma ba awa tae play elsewhere!

[icastle]

[Guest bassman7755]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1359929512' post='1962298']

If you shove all the saddles right forward and then mount it in the correct location, you'll get the correct intonation for that set of strings at that action.

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Yeah but hes not suggesting that the forwards-moved saddles are aligned with a previous intonation setting - he is suggesting that they are aligned with exactly double the nut-12fret distance. He is right, you are merely failing to understand what he said :-)

[icastle]

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1360010734' post='1963594']
He is right, you are merely failing to understand what he said :-)
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I strongly suspect you're right, I have to admit that I've kinda lost track of what it was that I was disagreeing about.

[yorks5stringer]

Thanks for all the interest and input........(sneaks out side door and wipes brow!)

[mart]

[quote name='bassman7755' timestamp='1360010734' post='1963594']
Yeah but hes not suggesting that the forwards-moved saddles are aligned with a previous intonation setting - he is suggesting that they are aligned with exactly double the nut-12fret distance. He is right, you are merely failing to understand what he said :-)
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Cheers mate! Glad somebody gets what I'm saying. (Fortunately, since I work in education, I'm well used to people not understanding me. )

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1360011675' post='1963622']
I strongly suspect you're right, I have to admit that I've kinda lost track of what it was that I was disagreeing about.
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Ye bampot! pmsl.

Edited February 5, 2013 by mart

[icastle]

[quote name='mart' timestamp='1360070311' post='1964293']
Ye bampot! pmsl.
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Now there we are in total agreement...

[mart]

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1360112481' post='1965162']
Now there we are in total agreement...
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At last!

[Vinny]

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1359915507' post='1962003']
Job done! Measured it all up and the bridge is now 1/2" further back which allows the contact point on the D string saddle to be exactly on 34". Needless to say intonation now spot on too!
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Well, really, I don't know what the world's coming to - this wouldn't be a problem if folk played properly and only wore out the first 5 frets now, would it?

Harumph!