New H575 Owner Bridge Question

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Just picked up new Heritage yesterday. I adjusted the bridge and everything is well intonated except for the B string which is overcompensated. Any advice would be appreciated. I have 11 flats on it.

 

Thanks,

 

Steve

[peterbright]

To me...the bridge appears to be too far forward.

[sec6]

The B is flat at the 12th fret. Everything else is in tune. It is definitely not too close towards the neck. Anybody else have this problem with the rosewood compensated bridges where the B saddle is too far back. How do I fix this issue?

[Vanschoyck]

I have a couple guitars with compensated rosewood bridges, and a couple with straight ebony ones. In either case I set the intonation for the E strings and then that's it. I don't even test the other ones. If you want I suppose you can compromise between the E string and the B. I suppose that's why many prefer adjustable bridge saddles.

 

It's a beautiful guitar, congratulations. How does it sound? Do you notice intonation problems when you're playing it, or just when you actually test it?

[jazzrat]

Yeah, if the E's are in tune you get what you get with the rest of them. Options are a custom made saddle or a tune-o-matic.

You could recarve the B area but if I remember right there is really not enough stock there to make much difference.

You would have to alter the break point toward the neck.

 

Gorgeous guitar. Congrats!

[sec6]

Yeah, maybe down the road I'll pick up a new bridge. I can live with it. I tried a Tusq bridge from another guitar I have and it intonated perfectly. The b on that bridge is in the perfect position. Guitar sounds great. It has SD 59s in it.

 

Thanks for all the help.

[yoslate]

To me...the bridge appears to be too far forward.

 

I have to agree. As a rule of thumb, the bridge should line up with the inward facing "points" (called a "nick") at the widest dimension of the "f" hole. I think that's where you'll find it if you set the bridge at exactly the same distance from the twelfth fret as the twelfth fret is from the nut. At that point, you may have to cant the bridge slightly for better intonation on either the bass or the treble side.

[sec6]

I solved the problem. Just swapped bridges with my Godin. The Graphtech Tusq bridge intonates perfectly for each string.

[peterbright]

Can we see the results?

[sec6]

Here you go.

 

[Vanschoyck]

Very resourceful! Congratulations on the new guitar.

[SouthpawGuy]

 

Nice !

[Kuz]

Yep, my luthier bought a different compensated rosewood bridge for mine and it intonates as well as any of my TOM equipped guitars.... But has that wonderful woody Archtop tone that only a wooden bridge can give!!!

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Yes, the sound was terrible with the Tusq. There was too much vibration between the tailpiece and the bridge. I went back to rosewood.