BR Ukuleles
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It's amazing how many ukes that I'm asked to work on that have intonation issues, and many times we're not talking about a little. But the saddle not even close to where it's suppose to be.
I can only assume that it comes down to a few things on the part of the builder.
I use a tapered template that follows the same taper of my fret board. Makes it's easy to locate on the fret board and assures that the strings will follow the correct path up to the nut. One end butts up agains the nut, and as you can see the other end locates the front edge of my saddle.
Once I have the bridge located I will do a sanity check with a string running from each outside nut slot to the corresponding bridge position....just to be sure.
I can only assume that it comes down to a few things on the part of the builder.
- Not knowing anything about compensation
- Not knowing the scale length (yes on 2 occasions the wrong scale length)
- Complete stuff up. This probably applies to the second one listed.
I use a tapered template that follows the same taper of my fret board. Makes it's easy to locate on the fret board and assures that the strings will follow the correct path up to the nut. One end butts up agains the nut, and as you can see the other end locates the front edge of my saddle.
Once I have the bridge located I will do a sanity check with a string running from each outside nut slot to the corresponding bridge position....just to be sure.