Christian Schlichting
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Hi everybody! My name is Christian. I am like most of you an ukulele addicted suffering from UAS as many of you. Been playing since ten years and rarely touched my guitars since I started playing ukulele. Can't tell, what it is. It's just so much more versatile. They are everywhere. Where ever I am, I just have to reach out with my arm and have one in my hands. Believe me, I have been reading here since a long time, but as I am not a typical forum writer, I just read, never signed in. But this is such a wonderful community and now, when I see a first reason for posting a question to you much more experienced players, owners and builders, I feel ashamed, that it`s something about worries. I also posted this in the Four String Farmhouse on the UMGF, in case some of you see it there, too..
My concern is a sinking top and a strange brigde.
Two of my new aquisitions show the sinking top under string tension, one is a soprano, one a concert size. The soprano has the strange bridge. The other one's bridge is straight.
Both are Sigma Ukuleles, all solid hog, kerfed linings, light bracings, build well and sounding very nice.
The soprano is shown here. It weighs 340 g, the top thickness measured in the soundhole is about 1,8 mm. The bridge looks rotated, but upon closer inspection, it is bomb fast. No gap, just missing finish, where it looks opened on the fotos. In a magnified foto it looks as it was shaped trapezoid, when you get, what I mean. I put a straight ruler across the top to show you the amount of dipping. The dip is 1 mm lentghwise and 2 mm across at the lowest points.
I am not the typical complaining customer, who measures everything and suspects faulty workmanship. Also do I believe, that there is some natural physics involved, that a thin and light top warps under string tension. But how much is too much?
For better information: The soprano ist strung with a Worth Brown Low-G 0.358, the rest are Martin 600. Tuning is GCEA Low-G. Humidity is ok, as I live in an old farm house in Northwest Germany, 100 km from the coast. Not an arid area.
Hope, you can help me decide, what to do! Both sound really nice, action is perfect on both, just 2,4 mm about the 12th fret, no string buzz, playability is about perfect. Shall I live with it, or return? My laminate do also have a little sinking but it never worried me. But these are solid. Thanks!!
My concern is a sinking top and a strange brigde.
Two of my new aquisitions show the sinking top under string tension, one is a soprano, one a concert size. The soprano has the strange bridge. The other one's bridge is straight.
Both are Sigma Ukuleles, all solid hog, kerfed linings, light bracings, build well and sounding very nice.
The soprano is shown here. It weighs 340 g, the top thickness measured in the soundhole is about 1,8 mm. The bridge looks rotated, but upon closer inspection, it is bomb fast. No gap, just missing finish, where it looks opened on the fotos. In a magnified foto it looks as it was shaped trapezoid, when you get, what I mean. I put a straight ruler across the top to show you the amount of dipping. The dip is 1 mm lentghwise and 2 mm across at the lowest points.
I am not the typical complaining customer, who measures everything and suspects faulty workmanship. Also do I believe, that there is some natural physics involved, that a thin and light top warps under string tension. But how much is too much?
For better information: The soprano ist strung with a Worth Brown Low-G 0.358, the rest are Martin 600. Tuning is GCEA Low-G. Humidity is ok, as I live in an old farm house in Northwest Germany, 100 km from the coast. Not an arid area.
Hope, you can help me decide, what to do! Both sound really nice, action is perfect on both, just 2,4 mm about the 12th fret, no string buzz, playability is about perfect. Shall I live with it, or return? My laminate do also have a little sinking but it never worried me. But these are solid. Thanks!!
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