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Post subject: Do the saddles on your Squier arc or stay about level?
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:42 am
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When you set the height of your bridge saddles, do you use something like a radius gauge and follow that arc? Or are the saddles supposed to be about level with one another?

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This can be a bit confusing....As far as I know, every individual saddle should be level with the guitar...but each saddle will have its own height based on the radius of the neck.

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bowlfreshener wrote:
This can be a bit confusing....As far as I know, every individual saddle should be level with the guitar...but each saddle will have its own height based on the radius of the neck.


Thanks for the reply!

This is where I'm getting confused. I have some radius gauges, but maybe I'm not sure how to use them correctly because the smallest measurement (14" and 7.25) are still wider than the guitar's actual neck. How would I go about using them?

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Bozman007 wrote:
This is where I'm getting confused. I have some radius gauges, but maybe I'm not sure how to use them correctly because the smallest measurement (14" and 7.25) are still wider than the guitar's actual neck. How would I go about using them?

So your question is about understanding the neck radius value, correct? Think of the fretboard curvature as a tiny piece of a circle. Where would the center of that circle be? The radius is the distance from the center of that imaginary circle to your fretboard (aka, the outside arc of the circle). The smaller the radius, the larger the curvature.

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01GT eibach wrote:
So your question is about understanding the neck radius value, correct? Think of the fretboard curvature as a tiny piece of a circle. Where would the center of that circle be? The radius is the distance from the center of that imaginary circle to your fretboard (aka, the outside arc of the circle). The smaller the radius, the larger the curvature.


I think I get that part (I think :? ), but is finding the curvature with a gauge (the four sided card/template kind) a matter of matching the fretboard's arc to the gauge? I think I've been making this harder than it is... :?

Ok, so if I determine that the radius is 9.5", then I go ahead and set the saddle heights to the same arc?

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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:46 am
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Ah, ok. I just found the specs I needed.

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