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Misalignment of neck, pickups, bridge, tailpiece…
Hey everyone, I had a general question about when a guitar has a misalignment of components. I’m working on this old Japanese electric guitar and the neck/fretboard, pickup, bridge, and tailpiece do not follow the same centerline. I’m curious how you all approach this type of thing. For example on this guitar, the bridge, pickup, and fretboard all closely line up, but the tailpiece does not. Would you move the tailpiece to be centered even if it looks odd cosmetically? My feeling has always been to get the guitar to function correctly regardless, but I’d be curious what your takes on this are. Thanks!
-David
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If there’s only one thing noticeably outta line, I’d probably move that one. Occasionally it’s worth splitting some differences, depending on the amount of touch-up you’re willing to do.
Situations like this are full of nuance though, and there’s not an objectively right way to go about it.
Even typing this, I’ve thought of a few reasons to go different directions.
Choose your favorite, and once the results are in, you’ll have more info to go on for future jobs!-
Thanks for getting back to me Nate, I think this is the way. Splitting the difference is a sensible approach, having things misaligned is unfortunate and has been a bit of a mental hang up for me in the past.
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