Bridge Maxed Out

[skidmarkbass]

Just built a Warmoth Jazz 5 with a Schaller bridge, E and B saddles are as far back as it will go... thinking of moving the bridge back 1/4" or so

 

[skidmarkbass]

I don't really care about extra screw holes as they will be covered by the bridge itself.

 

[TomA1234]

as long as you still have enough room for the A,D and G string saddles to intonate properly it should be fine

 

[David Jayne]

Do you think you goofed up the bridge location? Kind of hard to do with Warmoth parts. I'd try different strings first- sometimes you get a bad one that won't intonate correctly. Also, if it's just B and E, unless they're really far off, try playing it and see how it sounds- chances are you won't notice it at all. Sometimes B strings are impossible to intonate anyway.

 

[staindbass]

ive had to move the bridge back on some factory basses, (tuning a b string down to a flat makes the scale needing to be much longer). worked fine for me.

 

[TRichardsbass]

three wraps on the post cut some length. Sounds weird but sometimes you cant get the correct pull with too many wraps. last thing to do is relocate the bridge.

 

[TRichardsbass]

I agree with trying new strings. B strings are hard to tune let alone intonate. I often have the issue with my Kubickis and wind up having to cut strings etc. My old lightwave would max out the E all the time until I talked to Chris Wilcox and he told me that the basses were optimized for tapered strings. You can do a couple of things. Try raising the saddle just a touch. if that doesnt work try measuring the scale and see if it matches what you are finding. Try tapered strings especially on the B. If you have more then three wraps on the

 

[JLS]

three wraps on the post cut some length. Sounds weird but sometimes you cant get the correct pull with too many wraps.

What does this have to do with intonation?