660-12 intonation problem

jimintexas · Post by **jimintexas** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 11:23 am

I've spent the last two hours trying to intonate my "Factory New" guitar with no luck.

The low E, D, and B strings are still sharp. I have not removed the springs as yet because to be perfectly honest I am disgusted and wore out from fighting that little allen wrench. I can not comprehend that a expensive guitar such as this would leave the factory this far out of whack.

On an interesting note, I surfed across the McGuinn website and saw the location of his E and A saddles so I'm guessing that I am not alone with this intonation problem.

Are there those among you that have cured this problem short of re-drilling and moving the bridge?

What a nice surprise.

grsnovi · Post by **grsnovi** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:21 pm

Jim,

You should have email from me with a picture of my 12 saddle positions.

G

grsnovi · Post by **grsnovi** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:29 pm

BTW - what are you using for strings? I have been using (and I'm happy with) the stock Rickenbacker compressed round wound 10's - that is what the guitar is set-up with in the picture I sent you.

grsnovi · Post by **grsnovi** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:45 pm

see below

grsnovi · Post by **grsnovi** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 6:46 pm

http://hometown.aol.com/garyguitars/bridge.htm

jimintexas · Post by **jimintexas** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 7:52 am

Gary

Thanks for taking the time to help me thru this.

I guess this bridge/intonation issue is old news to most of the members here but after reading all the pages regarding Rick quality posted on this forum, to say that I'm a disappointed would be an understatement.

Regarding strings, this guitar is brand new and has the Rick issue strings.

It's going in the shop today so I will keep you posted.

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 12:35 pm

Did you check the neck adjustment first? If it's not dead straight, you're wasting your time trying to adjust the intonation.

The neck is the most likely thing to change in transit and in acclimatization to your part of the country. There's just no way for us to find an average adjustment that's going to work at every location out of the box without changing the construction to take away the elements that make it sound and play like a RIC in the first place.