For the Compton, or TOM, Jazzmaster/Mustang bridges — none of which I have an issue with—I'd need to drill post holes. Which, humorously enough, is what I was posting about at the beginning of this thread.Nudger wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 9:20 amAhh pennys dropped!! Your neck is 24.5 Not 24.Nudger wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 9:06 amraxling coxcomb, a wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:31 am
I missed responding to this before about the scale: it's a 24.5" scale neck.
The issue I see now with the Gotoh is moving it back far enough so the intonation is correct means leaving a larger gap between the pick guard and the start of the bridge.
Not converted a mustang to XII before so took a look at a mustang player on line.
Tell me if im missing something..
Im strugling to see why the gotoh cant be seated against the guard? Maybee a little material will need removing from pickguard either side of the bridge (IF the gotoh plate is wider width than the mustangs) but if you open up your gotoh plate for the bodys string through holes, it looks to me that the gotoh saddles would be seated in near same position as the originals?
I would fit the gotoh up against the guard, send something through the string holes to mark the back of the bridge so you can open plate holes up.
Any chance of a picture/mock up?
Yes this will throw up problems if using the Gotoh.
I wouldnt use the Gotoh on this personally.
Im a big fan of one piece compton bridges, but if you are ok with TOM or jazzmaster...
However, the post holes would need to be moved back about 1" in order to intonate correctly. This again causes a somewhat large gap between the bridge and the pickguard.
To be honest, I already modified the Gotoh bridge and had installed everything. I didn't properly account for the length of the Gotoh saddles. The breakpoint can't be set far enough back to intonate.