Re: Jazz partscaster build
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 10:33 pm
looks great, love the orange. the world needs more orange guitars.jazz&tele22 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:43 amDone but not really.
It needs a proper nut and I'll send it out for that at the end of the month.
A couple things that didn't get addressed in the pictures. I raised the neck with a shim in the pocket by 0.55mm, then I added some angle. At first I tried 0.75 of a degree but that wasn't enough so I ended up with 0.98 using homemade shims. Give or take some of my rough math, I'll say it has a 1 degree neck tilt.
The other thing was I lightly routed the vibrato cavity. It felt a little tight but besides that the sliding lockout button couldn't sit in the off position. It was tight between the wood body and against the moving parts of the vibrato, grinding pretty much. I opened things up and now I get good travel down but still get a little binding when I pull way up aggressively. I'm not sure why that is. It isn't the wood touching, my guess is it's the actual vibrato pieces not getting along. I don't see this as a problem long term as I don't use the arm aggressively but I'd like to fix it. Will have to investigate further later on.
For now it plays and sounds pretty good.
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