Thank you for sharing your ideas. Here I have learned a lot of things from this post and appreciate your innovative thinking.

@simecircle Welcome. Lots of experience and good advice on this forum.

Thank you very much!

@swepri yeah, or half a saw width? Which I understand to be 0.29mm, but I think you are probably right in that the difference is not big enough to change intonation.

@simecircle Check your jig using a fret space calculator. Maybe some templates are already compensated and others are not? On the other hand, the difference is only half a tang width, so maybe it does...

@swepri yes, that's exactly what I am thinking - especially if you compare to a zero fret! I don't think my jig does this and I notice that difference on yours is quite pronounced? Anyway, thank you s...

@nsj thank you kindly for the response - my jig does not appear to be offset to be honest.

@simecircle Yes there should be a tiny offset, at least compared to using a zero fret. I have a template from Rall, and there is markings for Saddle/Zero fret. The slot for this is a tiny bit wider an...

Well you're cutting the standard fret slot where the nut goes anyway, the jig usually has it as one of the notches to line up so in theory that already happens. Certainly never had a problem yet mysel...

So after introducing myself to a very friendly welcome I thought I would try and ask a question. I can’t work out whether this is the correct forum, but here goes… I have one of those fret jigs for ...

yep, I picked up a router template set, so that should help, but never underestimate the level of my ineptitude 😉 Thank you for the pointer as far as the Gotoh - I’ll definitely keep that in mind for ...

@swepri thank you for your suggestion. I really don’t know why I didn’t think of that myself! My old garden bench is in the workshop waiting to be up cycled into something, so I’ve got loads of cheap,...

@steveh musiclily do a decent routing template, only thing missing is the recess for the floyd but that's not to hard to knock up. I'd recommend grabbing a gotoh floyd, 150 ish but fantastic units....

Welcome to the forum Simon, we're all friendly here and as long are your stupid questions are related to guitar building then fire away.

Hi there I've made a couple of guitars and was looking for a friendly place to ask stupid questions. Would this fit the bill? Some of the forums seem to be for people following the courses only, so ...

@steveh Planning and drawing is a useful start. Maybe you could try out the necessary routing for the trem on a cheap piece of wood, to confirm. How is samba wood to work with? I have only used Bosse ...

@wolframmalukker I went for a simpler "f-hole". I just did a weight relief chamber on one side of the body and added the f-hole for looks. I forgot to seal the inside of the chamber for moisture, tho...

Haven't had time to fool with this over the summer. Things have gotten away from me a bit but I now have 14 guitar pedal designs up through the engineering sample phase, 5 of them are production ready...

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