Help with measuring from you guys with 25.5" scale length

[djf67]

My next project(s) are to be bodies from scratch with strat-compatible necks. My own shape. I've got three body blanks (basswood, mahogany and white korina) and two tasty quilt maple tops.  :blob7:
Hoping to make at least one for my bro' for his 40th. Shh, don't tell.
I'm down to my last 25.5" scale-length guitar (my Warmoth Strat) so only have the one to measure off at the mo'. It's had a pro luthier set-up, perfectly intonated and stays in tune really well. I've measured 12th fret to saddle line (should be 25.5/2 i.e. 12.75") but it's more like 12+7/8th to 13+1/16th (ave extra 7/32", if my maths serves), but nut to 12th fret is (obviously) still 12.75".  :icon_scratch:

Please will a few of you measure yours and post the results - 12th fret to nearest and furthest saddle?
Oh, and can you say what bridge you have, too.

Ta muchly.

 

[Mor Paul]

On my tele, it's all pretty close to 25.5, but my low E and A strings are maybe 3/16th further back. It's a compensated Tele bridge with three brass saddles. If you choose a bridge, see how much movement the saddles have, then drill so that 25.5 is right in the middle, if memory serves me right.

 

[Strat Matt]

http://www.stewmac.com/FretCalculator

If you put your scale length and number of frets in there, at the bottom of the page it will tell you the where to drill for a bunch of different types of bridges.

 

[djf67]

http://www.stewmac.com/FretCalculator

If you put your scale length and number of frets in there, at the bottom of the page it will tell you the where to drill for a bunch of different types of bridges.

Brilliant link! Problem solved.
Thanks! ccasion14:

...and amazingly quick responses.  :icon_thumright:

 

[stubhead]

Well, it's never going to be shorter, always longer... I figure about 1/16'" longer for the high E (even less!), and never more than 1/4" for the lowest string. I've done two seven-strings with a low B - .060" to .066" or so string - and they intonate at just about 25.75". So the low E will be less, and I've never seen a bridge with too little adjustment. I believe the Tune-o-matics are the most probl-o-matic*, but I never fuss with them so I know not.

*(I gots natchrul rhythm, too - wanna see me dance?) :cool01: