C4, part 6
It's been over a year since I last posted about C4 . Everything I've written about C4 continues to prove itself as true. And, I continue to learn about it. Because it was originally conceived of and built for nylon strings, the course spacing at the nut and saddle were extraordinarily wide. I prefer a very tight spacing within a course, and a wider spacing between courses. After the conversion to an all-steel string setup, the courses were too wide. This week, I finally addressed this issue. I tightened up the spacing at the nut for courses 1 - 6. I've come to prefer a course spacing of just under .040" of an inch; for those of you in Europe, that's about 1mm. I also tightened the course spacing at the saddle for courses 1 - 6. The other leftover issue from its nylon string period is that the bass saddle was too high for steel strings. The saddle on this instrument is a split saddle, meaning that unl...
