| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] 7-string ShoBro on eBay | | Date: | Friday, December 15, 2006 19:38:25 (-0800) | | From: | Richard DeNeve <richard_d13132 @.....com>
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Been there, done that, a few times, on 7-string
guitars. Only I place the cone opening toward the
nut, so that the slot for the one-piece bridge is
offset toward the tailpiece. This effectively places
the hand and picks farther from the bridge, adding to
the mellow sound lots of people try for, without
having to move the hand as far off the hand rest
toward the nut as would otherwise be necessary.
It also places the cover plate a bit toward the nut,
widening the space between it and the end of the
guitar, which is more pleasing to my aesthetic sense.
The slot is about 1/4 inch offset from the center of
the cone (i.e. screw hole); the direction of the
offset thus can make 1/2 inch difference in the
location of the cover plate.
YMMV
Dick DeNeve
--- kbrown@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> but
> as I understand it, it's fairly common to use an
> offset spider on 7-string
> dobros. That way, the extra space that would
> normally have a gap for tension
> screw access can be filled up with a single-piece
> bridge insert. The
> single-piece insert, since it's slightly longer than
> the usual arrangement,
> gives enough width for the extra string, and you
> don't have the problem of 4
> strings lsots on one bridge insert and 3 on the
> other.
>
> Presumably the soundwell or cone-supporting ledge is
> shifted forward a slight
> distance so as to restore the correct intonation.
> This obviously requires some
> advance planning, because you've got to lay out the
> guts of the beast correctly
> before you ever get to the point where you install
> the offset spider.
>
>
> Ken Brown
> Austin, Texas
>
> Nothing, I guess.
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