Some might say I should've done a bit more research before diving in, and I'd be amongst them, but I didn't...
So I've got a Hipshot A-style bridge for my 5 string. The original bridge appeared to have been fitted by a chimp with a drill and anger management issues, hence there was a lot of filling of half-arsed and crooked holes to be done. Thing is, if I fit the Hipshot so that the holes for stringing through the body line up, a lot of the damage to the finish is visible as the original bridge covered more surface area than the Hipshot. Asthetically, the problem can be solved by moving the Hipshot back about an inch. I'd lose the ability to string through the body then obviously, but the Hipshot can top load and I could live with that.
Question is, if I change the distance from saddle to nut by that much, will that screw with the mathematics of where the frets have been placed and mean that any fretted notes will be consistently out of tune? Any oppinions?
I'm also having a shot at changing the preamp. So far, I've got the battery, jack and pots wired up. However, I've just noticed that the original knobs don't fit over the shafts of the pots on my new preamp (a Delano Sonar). There's absolutely nothing written on the individual pots, so is there a way of telling which knobs will fit?
Thanks heaps for any help and advice chaps...
Scott