Here’s what I’ve been using for the last few years. Being made from wood they do not mar the studs, I’ve never broken one but I always loosen the strings to adjust the bridge studs. Made from two large popsicle/tongue depresser’s. I saturate the end with super glue to harden it. Not real pretty but it works good.
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Great idea! Family used to have several of these for marking garden rows. I think I'll need to find some extras, but I "dig" the concept (pardon the pun).
Friday night, my essential intonation tools arrived via amazon. The tools were a metal gauge that measures string and pickup height, a strobe tuner (Korg Pitchblack Custom) plus adapter, a 3-pack of acoustic strings, and a camera screwdriver (that was just a tad too thick to fit into the stud groove).
It took about an hour of slow and determined work (needed to measure the height of the bridge studs and adjust, plus adjust the allen screws at either side of the bridge end for string length) with the strobe tuner, but after some mild trial and error, was successful!
Then today, the guitar was put back up onto my workspace and the pickup height was adjusted to factory spec.
Plugged her in.
Holy Mackerel! What an improvement! Tried it with some dirt. Yowza! Sprayed some Fingerease to lube the fretboard. Yes! Popped some Bob Gardner blues onto my Music list to jam with...Yup, that's it! Please forgive the self-ingratiating praise. This is what I've been looking for some time now.
And I have several people to thank, though they may not be aware of what they've had a hand in. Am happy now, and have nobody else to thank except those who helped "prepare the soil" for me. This was much more than my "garden variety" maintenance work that I'm used to. Much appreciated.
