lungimsam
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I have just lived with my strings being slightly off in alignment from the pole pieces towards the lower bout side for the last 7 years but it would be aesthetically nice to get the strings spaced over the pole pieces correctly, and also have the strings pass evenly along either side of the fret dot inlays. Any ideas?
Perhaps the factory bridge was put on wrong or something.
I tried pushing my saddles over, but they just get instantly pulled back to the lower bout side by the string tension. Nut is straight and cut right. So it ain't the nut that is causing it.
Here are my three ideas (I think #2 will be best) how to fix this but let me know what yours are:
1. Making new bridge pieces and cutting the string slots in a way that aligns them perfectly over the pole pieces. Or filing new slots in existing pieces if poss.
2. Remove the saddles and intonation sliders from the bridge and put some fender Pbass long adjustment bolts and springs and pbass cylinder saddles onto the Guild bridge. Should work I guess if the length of the bolts isn't to long or short. I have some to try with. The Pbass saddles that look like giant threaded grub screws are meant for fine tuning string alignment anyway. So I could align the strings that way. Just pop 'em over into the adjacent thread.
3. Install new bridge. But I don't like the idea of new holes and I have no clue how I could get it aligned straight myself.
Perhaps the factory bridge was put on wrong or something.
I tried pushing my saddles over, but they just get instantly pulled back to the lower bout side by the string tension. Nut is straight and cut right. So it ain't the nut that is causing it.
Here are my three ideas (I think #2 will be best) how to fix this but let me know what yours are:
1. Making new bridge pieces and cutting the string slots in a way that aligns them perfectly over the pole pieces. Or filing new slots in existing pieces if poss.
2. Remove the saddles and intonation sliders from the bridge and put some fender Pbass long adjustment bolts and springs and pbass cylinder saddles onto the Guild bridge. Should work I guess if the length of the bolts isn't to long or short. I have some to try with. The Pbass saddles that look like giant threaded grub screws are meant for fine tuning string alignment anyway. So I could align the strings that way. Just pop 'em over into the adjacent thread.
3. Install new bridge. But I don't like the idea of new holes and I have no clue how I could get it aligned straight myself.