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  1. As of today September 20th 2014, the plan is for sometime in our 35th year of marriage. So somewhere between November of '15 and November of '16.

     

    Boat over, which'll take a week. Three weeks or so puttering around France, but it all depends on the boat back and how we can work that one out. So a minimum of three weeks eating and drinking continental for the first time since The Romanoff in Bermuda. Can't wait. You have some nice art over there too I've heard. So Mrs is up for spending some time in London before we boat home, so I told her you nice people would buy her dinner at Galvin at Windows and she reluctantly agreed.

     

    rct

    Now that sounds like a lot of fun, rct!

     

    Any members live near Phoenix? Maybe get a mini-jam going somewhere and have a BBQ? [smile]

  2. That's a very long video, Haph.

     

    But I saw something, that's worth some critique: One should never lower the tailpiece all the way down to the body. I discussed this last year with my master luthier and he recommended to adjust the tailpiece to the same angle than the bridge and to take care, that the string angle between bridge and tailpiece is not too extreme, which causes higher tension and the risk of string breakage by bendings even if the strings don't touch the bridge body, which can cause buzzing.

     

    I know, Ay !!! I've mentioned that several times on this board. I firmly believe that the risk of headstock breakage increases as well. I don't recall Mr. Bradford explicitly mentioning the tailpiece; but I too noticed it was waaay too low. I'm glad the 'big guns' of this forum agree with me on this subject! As a side note, I've never broken a string, bending is easier and I get zero buzzing - all due to the 'raised tailpiece'.

     

    I am contemplating starting a topic to explain why I feel 'Modern Weight Relief' S*CKS!!!

     

    Warm Regards.

  3. Thank you for sharing that, Aymara...

    Due to your much appreciated link, I've learned of yet another way to measure neck relief!

     

    Here is another link -

     

    I am now aware of four (!) methods to check neck relief. They all have one thing in common: fretting both E strings at the 1st fret.

     

    Otherwise, well here we go...

     

    1. Depress strings on the neck, beyond the 22nd fret. Check gap at 12th fret.

    2. Same as 1., but check gap at the 8th fret.

    3. According to a final inspector at Memphis, depress strings at 15th fret and check gap at 7th fret.

    4. In the Gibson User Manual (2012), it says to depress strings at 14th fret and check gap at 9th fret.

     

    I use the 4th method - but for kicks I then use the other three, to see differences in gap. [tongue]

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