ChuckBarnett
Well-known member
Again... first build...
I am following the lmii plan for this tenor ukulele. I am making a bridge and working on softwood to practice. My question is: how deep should the saddle sit in the saddle slot in the bridge?
The height of the bridge is 7 mm according to the plan with 3mm of the saddle in the slot and 4mm of wood beneath it. My bridge thickness is 6 mm. (I determined this thickness by laying a straightedge across the frets and over the bridge and reducing the bridge thickness until I got between 1 and 1.5 mm between the top of the bridge and the bottom of the straight edge.)
And if I were to ever believe that this instrument would be worthy of amplification, how thick is the pickup that one would install in the bottom of the slot? If you set the saddle onto a pickup strip it is pushed up, so it would need to be reduced in height. What is the minimum saddle that must be in the slot for stability? My concern is that there doesn't look to be a lot of thickness of wood in this bridge.
Also, best I can tell from the plan, the saddle is 2.5 mm thick. I don't have a saddle yet and need to order material for that. I see where somebody said they rout that slot at 3.2 mm and some more and some less. Is there any kind of a standard?
Grateful, as always!
I am following the lmii plan for this tenor ukulele. I am making a bridge and working on softwood to practice. My question is: how deep should the saddle sit in the saddle slot in the bridge?
The height of the bridge is 7 mm according to the plan with 3mm of the saddle in the slot and 4mm of wood beneath it. My bridge thickness is 6 mm. (I determined this thickness by laying a straightedge across the frets and over the bridge and reducing the bridge thickness until I got between 1 and 1.5 mm between the top of the bridge and the bottom of the straight edge.)
And if I were to ever believe that this instrument would be worthy of amplification, how thick is the pickup that one would install in the bottom of the slot? If you set the saddle onto a pickup strip it is pushed up, so it would need to be reduced in height. What is the minimum saddle that must be in the slot for stability? My concern is that there doesn't look to be a lot of thickness of wood in this bridge.
Also, best I can tell from the plan, the saddle is 2.5 mm thick. I don't have a saddle yet and need to order material for that. I see where somebody said they rout that slot at 3.2 mm and some more and some less. Is there any kind of a standard?
Grateful, as always!