Gretsch Guitars - Tech Tips - Intonating Your Bar Bridge Equipped Gretsch

[wildmanniac]

Anyone have a new 5120, with the bridge Pick-up Way too far from the strings?? all adjustment maxed out!!!

[ksgant]

THIS is why models like the Brian Setzer have a pinned bridge. I'd forever keep knocking it out of intonation. But that's just me.

[baylin95]

Cool instruction... but, how do you know initially where to place the bridge on the guitar... how far back from the rear pickup should you start to place it when you are trying to get correct intonation? Also, what if you get the 2 e's intonated and the G is still way out... this is a problem I'm having...

thanks for any help!

[kerranz]

@baylin95 just for a starting point, double the length from the inside edge of the nut to the center of the twelfth fret, that should give you your proper scale length.

The only way to solve the individual string problem is to replace this primitive bridge for one that intonates saddles individually, sorry.

[rodrunnerosx]

yep, but what about the guitar action string?

[pankGejt]

I'm glad that I have a Gretsch with a pinned bridge :)

[cast390]

The guitar should be in the playing position when adjusting intonation and not on its back.

[DwarkFarkward]

@cast390 Not necessarily. As long as there is no torque on the neck, it should be fine. SInce this is a set neck guitar, it's less likely to be a problem. If it's a Strat or a Tele, that's another thing.

[aishinosaki2011]

@cast390 (dude just gave u thumbs up. wise words. thanks for sharing. . .)

[juaollla]

Hello Amo,

Try APTuner, much cheaper that having a tuner on hardware...

Just an opinion.

JJ

[ArnoGuit]

Great Instruction, great Guitar ..

but: Where can i get this LED-Tuner you use in the clip?

thanks from Munich,

Arno

[tombrenttomb]

@ArnoGuit its a Korg Rack Tuner, look it up on Musicians Friend dot com or Google.

[trashedlostandhungry]

@tombrenttomb  ugh blind bat, don't you see the F from fender *facepalm*

[tombrenttomb]

@trashedlostandhungry well yeah, i saw that. they're the precisely same tuner, but the fender ones have been discontinued.

as in no longer available. as in you can't get them other than used anymore. as in useless to tell someone if its something that they're not gonna find.

logic. whoa.

[dayone54]

thanx brian;

i just done the innotation on my g3161.

does it matter when i hit my low e string on 12fret it comes up perfect pitch but showing high e on tuner?

thanx,

debs

keep strummin'

[3638954]

holy fuck, thanks for the video! I just restrung my Gretsch for the first time and couldn't figure out why I was having trouble maintaining a tuned guitar... You can imagine how frustrated I got trying to record like that

[bunklefee]

what a fab job,

working with gretsch.

I hope/wonder if the pay's good.

If so what other job could be better :L

[cast390]

A Pornstar