aarondminnick
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I've been playing a few years and am starting to work with chords and melodies "up the neck." I'm not happy with intonation as I move up, and I know that ukes have chronic issues with this due to the short scale (well, that and the inherent acoustic things about fretted stringed instruments, etc. etc.).
Guitars often incorporate compensated saddles to address this, and most of you know that Lanikai introduced TunaUke adjustable saddles a couple of years back. GraphTech makes Tusq compensated saddles for guitars and it occurred to me that it should be possible to adapt one of their products for use on a uke.
Here's what I'm considering. I play linear tuning (low G tenor / DGBE baritone).
GCEA tenor (wound low G): the string weights are comparable to the top 4 of a classical guitar nylon set. Should be possible to trim off the left 2 positions of a guitar saddle, leaving a 4-position saddle.
DGBE baritone (wound low D and G): string weights are comparable to the middle 4 of a classical nylon set. Should be possible to trim the leftmost and rightmost string positions, again leaving 4 positions.
They make an "Acoustic Classical Low" saddle that I'm considering for this purpose, http://graphtech.com/products/brand...l-low?id=a5e21dc0-7a6b-40a2-b5ac-55aec4dee58c.
Any thoughts on this approach? Or are there other makers that have uke-specific saddles that I don't have to cut and sand?
Guitars often incorporate compensated saddles to address this, and most of you know that Lanikai introduced TunaUke adjustable saddles a couple of years back. GraphTech makes Tusq compensated saddles for guitars and it occurred to me that it should be possible to adapt one of their products for use on a uke.
Here's what I'm considering. I play linear tuning (low G tenor / DGBE baritone).
GCEA tenor (wound low G): the string weights are comparable to the top 4 of a classical guitar nylon set. Should be possible to trim off the left 2 positions of a guitar saddle, leaving a 4-position saddle.
DGBE baritone (wound low D and G): string weights are comparable to the middle 4 of a classical nylon set. Should be possible to trim the leftmost and rightmost string positions, again leaving 4 positions.
They make an "Acoustic Classical Low" saddle that I'm considering for this purpose, http://graphtech.com/products/brand...l-low?id=a5e21dc0-7a6b-40a2-b5ac-55aec4dee58c.
Any thoughts on this approach? Or are there other makers that have uke-specific saddles that I don't have to cut and sand?
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