I remembered that American manufacturers have clung, unwisely, to imperial measurements, rejecting the SI system.QUOTE]
oed: OK Sorry, but you've struck a nerve. YOU CAN'T SAY THAT!!!
YES, and here I have no complaint...
You are probably right later in your post about conversion factors, and how it may have happened, and I have seen this problem occur in engineers' calculations. And the Intonation problem on the Gibsons of late has been well identified by some master luthiers both sides of the Atlantic. No argument there.
HOWEVER, and yes I saw where you're posting from! As 1st a Brit, where incidentally the IMPERIAL measuring system was invented/standardised, and 2nd working in an industry where we use both ALL the time, and both work just as well for us. I have to defend the Imperial system.
We Brits built an Empire, and half the industry around it on Imperial. We also helped a lot of people around the World using it to standardise things like railways, when Europe was all over the place with theirs.
Actually in certain respects, measurements and particularly when using hyper accurate guages, Imperial is often far more accurate. Believe it or not but a lot of guages in engineering are twice the diameter and more accurate in Imperial than their metric equivalent.
All the CNC's that I have access to don't care, so if there is a incorrect factor it shouldn't be the machine, but the programmer.
If you doubt what I say, well. In my biz we go from 0-90mph and back again 25 times per second. Sometimes we do it faster. Yes we use metric, but Imperial still works fine for us.
Oh, if you didn't know. The US military did a study on turning completely metric. The costs would have run into 'Billions' so they didn't.
I like the Foot, Yard, Mile, Inch, they work fine for me! It was good enough for Isambard Kingdom Brunel!
Ditch the Pound and I'll be invoicing in US$!
The US may have broken off the chains of Imperialist oppression, but they knew a good thing when they saw it!
:soapbox: :usa2: :usa: What No Union Jack???
I remembered that American manufacturers have clung, unwisely, to imperial measurements, rejecting the SI system.QUOTE]
YES, and here I have no complaint...
You are probably right later in your post about conversion factors, and how it may have happened, and I have seen this problem occur in engineers' calculations. And the Intonation problem on the Gibsons of late has been well identified by some master luthiers both sides of the Atlantic. No argument there.
HOWEVER, and yes I saw where you're posting from! As 1st a Brit, where incidentally the IMPERIAL measuring system was invented/standardised, and 2nd working in an industry where we use both ALL the time, and both work just as well for us. I have to defend the Imperial system.
We Brits built an Empire, and half the industry around it on Imperial. We also helped a lot of people around the World using it to standardise things like railways, when Europe was all over the place with theirs.
Actually in certain respects, measurements and particularly when using hyper accurate guages, Imperial is often far more accurate. Believe it or not but a lot of guages in engineering are twice the diameter and more accurate in Imperial than their metric equivalent.
All the CNC's that I have access to don't care, so if there is a incorrect factor it shouldn't be the machine, but the programmer.
If you doubt what I say, well. In my biz we go from 0-90mph and back again 25 times per second. Sometimes we do it faster. Yes we use metric, but Imperial still works fine for us.
Oh, if you didn't know. The US military did a study on turning completely metric. The costs would have run into 'Billions' so they didn't.
I like the Foot, Yard, Mile, Inch, they work fine for me! It was good enough for Isambard Kingdom Brunel!
Ditch the Pound and I'll be invoicing in US$!
The US may have broken off the chains of Imperialist oppression, but they knew a good thing when they saw it!
:soapbox: :usa2: :usa: What No Union Jack???
You may want to remember that I'm British myself.
Sure imperial measurements worked for Brunel; the Romans built an empire using Roman numerals (although their architects were greek and used geometry) but the fact is that every branch of science uses the metric SI system because of it's consistency and accuracy of resolution.
Even imperial measuring tools use thousands of an inch instead of eighths, sixteenths etc.
Isn't it ironic though that computer memory sizes are based on a progressive doubling as the imperial system was based on a progressive halving...
Pretty close isn't good enough IB. An error of 1% in a 600+ mm scale is an absolute error of 6+ mm.I'm not exactly sure what you're saying here. Gibson's are 24.75" scale not 24.5 and judging from your pick the saddle is 627mm which is 24.68", pretty close to the 24.75" scale that is being used.
I have noticed that the ABR-1 style bridges, for whatever reason need the saddle cranked further to the back than the Nashville style. Unfortunately I don't have any really good pics of the ABR-1 bridges that I own, here's one that you can see the saddle farther back but the guitar is still properly intonated.
Now here are two Nashville bridges, perfectly intonated again. Look at the placement of the saddles on these.
