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srshea
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Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest
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RE: low action? (in reply to at_leo_87)
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warning: bone smells REAL bad. My cats don’t think so! I made a new saddle this summer, out on the front steps. After several minutes of shaving, the cats started slowly creeping around, wide-eyed, sniffing the air. They couldn’t figure out what was going on, but they knew something was up! I imagine some kind of bone product is a standard ingredient in all pet foods….. I took a very lazy-man’s approach to this: pretty much just eyeballed the whole thing; didn’t really measure; just held a board on my lap with a piece of sandpaper on it and patiently and slowly grinded away for an hour or so. I used all the above mentioned links as a guide. In the end I think I did go just a hair shorter than I should have, but it still works fine. One of these days I’ll do it again and try to get a more precise fit. So long as you take an if-it-aint-broke/don’t-fix-it approach to the original saddle there’s really nothing that can go too terribly wrong. The only thing that was tricky for me was that, as I did this, I sanded and sanded, and every time I would check the new saddle against the original there would still be a long ways to. So I would get back to the sanding, keep checking, and keep having to get back to the sanding. Then, next thing I knew, I had suddenly gone lower than I wanted. So, just be careful and very attentive when you start nearing the finish line, I guess…… Regarding measuring the action, there’s one thing I’ve never really understood, which is how to properly and ACCURATELY use a ruler. Do you measure to the beginning of the line? The middle? The end? I’m guessing that you measure to the middle, but since we’re dealing in the merest fractions of millimeters here, I just don’t see how you go about getting a truly accurate measurement using a standard ruler….
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Date Feb. 3 2009 13:17:36
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srshea
Posts: 833
Joined: Oct. 29 2006
From: Olympia, WA in the Great Pacific Northwest
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RE: low action? (in reply to Jim Opfer)
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Thanks, John and Jim. The ruler in the pic is just something I grabbed off the internet. My own ruler is just an all-purpose metal job, which doesn’t actually have a mark at the edge, so I guess my concern over the potential lack of accuracy in using it for this kind of measuring is that I just don’t trust that the space between the edge of the ruler and the first mark is truly equivalent to the spaces between marks on the rest of the rule, and I can’t determine whether the edge of the rule is supposed to represent the beginning, middle, or end of a mark. (I actually just pulled the ruler out made some marks on a piece of paper, and it appears that the edge is equivalent to the middle of a mark. Give or take. It’s still hard to get really accurate here, and when you’re talking about a difference between 3mm and 2.8mm…..) Anyway, this was partly just abstract curiosity on my part, but I do appreciate y’all’s help. Oh, you luthiers and architects, with your super-precise, specialized tools….
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Date Feb. 3 2009 16:28:56
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