Workshop: I thought I was almost done...

So I'm just getting ready to restring this tenor guitar when I find that the last local "pro" to work on it had made a new bridge for it...

...with the saddle a full 1/4" too far to the rear. I can understand 1/32" or 1/16" in a glue-up accident but 1/4" -- I mean -- come on! If you're going to charge someone real money to do the job, just do the job right. Measuring is not difficult. It's just not, not, not, not, not difficult.

For those of you who're scratching their heads about the measurements and why I'm frustrated -- to set the high string's saddle location on any guitar, first you measure from the nut to the 12th fret and then you measure from the 12th fret to the saddle the same distance. In this case that means 22 3/4" overall scale length. On a 6-string guitar the low E then needs to be compensated a little over 1/8" to the rear of that and on a tenor guitar the bass side needs a little over 1/16" compensation.