[CAUT] Downbearing Error

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Greg

You do hit the proverbial nail squarely :)  Fortunately I wont have to 
recap more then the top 30 notes as the rest is uncapped solid hardrock 
maple.  That is to say unless someone has a good reason why plugging and 
re-drilling bridge pin holes is a bad idea in itself.   Still... its a 
lot of extra work.... but it will be one way or the other I guess.

My thought about taking them down 5 unisons at a time was simply that I 
could individually fit each unisons deflection to the bridge, and I 
wouldnt have to let the whole tension down at the same time.  Then 
too... I kinda figured it wouldnt take me long to see if I could get 
this to work or if I will just have to bite the bullet as Jon says and 
just do it over.

You are right tho... big time.   Regret sucks... and more of it will  
suck even more.... all this kinda reminds me of a VW engine I rebuilt 
once..... it was PERFECT... except the guy what sold me on a custom oil 
cooler neglected to tell me the damned thing needed to be machined to 
fit where the stock one went. GOD I was a proud 17 year old... for 5000 
miles :) 

Cheers
RicB


    Ric,
        I think the question you have to ask yourself is if you would feel
    regret later after not having recapped. Regret sucks! I'm not sure
    how you
    would shave down evenly at the rate of 5 unisons at a time anyway.
        Did you maybe over compensate for board deflection in designing the
    dimension of the bridge?

    Best,
    Greg