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[QUOTE=JNixon]Stew-Mac has a calculator on their website that gives compensated saddle placement measurements for any scale length. Might be a good place to start.[/QUOTE]


 


They also have the Saddlematic...
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Does any one other than me wonder if a cricket is an alter ego?

Do some beginners suffer a compensation complex?

Build a lap style slide and fuggetaboottit?

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Fuggetabeuttit?

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[quote=Chuck Hutchison]I just want to say thanks for the patients.[/quote]

   Well Chuck, I hope your a Doctor if somebody is sending you patients!

     Yea! Chuck your going to have to have patience in dealing with Billy T! Just thought I'd jump you about your spelling too! Sorry, couldn't resist!   


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Now Billy..... If we are getting into correcting other's grammer and spelling......


"Well Chuck, I hope your (supposed to be a contraction of you and are which is you're) a Doctor if somebody is sending you patients!"


Great thread everyone!  I have learned a great deal about compensation.  Now if I could get compensated for learning about compensation...........


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  Now if I could get compensated for learning about compensation...........

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OK, I hope I don't flash anyone with my ignorance.  Martin's 25.4 is actually 25.34 on a D-28 style guitar.  If you were to look at a set of plans by, I think, MacRostie, the compensated length, from the nut to the middle of the saddle at it's center point is written down as 25.465.  Now with that said, a friend of mine, who has played almost every guitar I have made (since I am not that good) finally told me last week that they all tend to intonate a little sharp.  Glad he finally got around to telling me that...before guitars # 15 and 16. I went a little longer (25.490) on the last two, and he said "Bingo!".  What I added was what Cumpiano I believe recommends in his book, which is .15"  And that is with a 3 degree saddle.  I hope I haven't tossed a monkey wrench into the turbine....
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[quote=Texas Steve] (supposed to be a contraction of you and are which is you're) [/quote]

I was wait'in for some nitpicker to hit that one!

     ARGH!!! Wear's my edit button !!!!

This is a good thread!

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Billy T - Thanks for the good humor on that one!!!!

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[QUOTE=Billy T][quote=Chuck Hutchison]I just want to say thanks for the patients.[/quote]

   Well Chuck, I hope your a Doctor if somebody is sending you patients!

     Yea! Chuck your going to have to have patience in dealing with Billy T! Just thought I'd jump you about your spelling too! Sorry, couldn't resist!   

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Anytime!

Great Question! Good Answers!

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