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Your right because the intonation was perfect and this is only possible since the bridge is an absolute piece of engineering art. I stared at it a while up close. Someone with mad skills designed it.
Now, after doing it correctly and after having it wrong for so many years (in ignorance), I think ...

Hot diggity dog! :mrgreen: I spent less than 1/2 hour setting it up. The strings were new - that is 2 years ago, but I never played it due to the terrible intonation so they were still perfect. I loosened them up, slid the bridge back to a first guess position. Significantly back from the pick guard ...

Thanks Brian....
I reviewed the images you linked (...will upload mine after I figure out how to do it...)
I saw a image without the guard on..
http://www.rickresource.com/register/user_images/8567/7.jpg

Wow..It does truly float like on a violin. I put on strings previously and installed them in ...

Hi, Thank you all for such a wonderful forum and resource for Ricks..I inherited this stunning guitar close to 15 years ago from the original owner and it never stayed in tune and had no intonation so I just put it away and stuck to my other guitars and raised my kids.
Fast forward. I would like to ...