Stewmac Intonator

[Dave M]

Does the intonator from Stewmac work with the typical curved arrangement of bridge pins on a Gore bridge do we know?

Dave

[TallDad71]

The intonator is designed for straight pin patterns and works beautifully.
I take a photo of the finish positions and translate this to my saddle.

I didn’t buy an intonator, I built my own out of brass bits and Bobs, it’s easy enough to do this I looked for the following on eBay

M3 M4 SCREW DOOR HANDLE Brass Chrome Connecting Sleeve Screws / Bolt Roses Knobs

I Bent, twisted, cajoled and put them in a brass block.

[kiwigeo]

If the Intonater doesnt fit I just go with the old piece of solid G string

[joel]

Would love to see some pics Mr. TallDad if you don't mind. I could do with a gadget like this. I tried the g-string trick and I wasn't happy.

The intonator is designed for straight pin patterns and works beautifully.
I take a photo of the finish positions and translate this to my saddle.

I didn’t buy an intonator, I built my own out of brass bits and Bobs, it’s easy enough to do this I looked for the following on eBay

M3 M4 SCREW DOOR HANDLE Brass Chrome Connecting Sleeve Screws / Bolt Roses Knobs

I Bent, twisted, cajoled and put them in a brass block.

[TallDad71]

A bit of brass block combined with the M3 bolts works just fine.
A version to suit Trevor’s bridge design would just need the bolts to be longer at the Outside strings, the brass block could easily sit behind the D and G pegs as there is very little forward pressure.

£10 worth of parts, bit of work with a drill, hacksaw and some files to get the radius sorted and threads removed and you are set.

It’s not fool proof though, you still have to find a way to translate the positions of each brass bridge piece to find the overall saddle location (line of best fit). I measure and record the distance from the peg to each bridge piece.

The intonator also relies on each brass bridge piece being the correct height to match the finished setup if you are to get each saddle peak correctly located.

Overall results are very good though.

[Dave M]

Thanks people. Time is in short supply just now so was hoping to just buy one. Dave