High E string on S-100 keeps pulling off!

[S100]

Nobody said duct tape? Could the slot be filed lower for a deeper channel and the raise the saddle to compensate?

 

[S100]

Beautiful guitar, btw.

 

[riachuelo]

Beautiful guitar, btw.

Thank you. I love it! This is my only issue!

 

[riachuelo]

Update: I raised the treble side of the bridge a tad and also, with the help of some tweezers, managed to lower that mechanism -- whatever that square screw that holds the saddle is called -- down closer to the bottom of the bridge. Both helped the break angle a little. Rehearsed with my band last night and not a single problem. Thanks all for the input.

 

[GAD]

Update: I raised the treble side of the bridge a tad and also, with the help of some tweezers, managed to lower that mechanism -- whatever that square screw that holds the saddle is called -- down closer to the bottom of the bridge. Both helped the break angle a little. Rehearsed with my band last night and not a single problem. Thanks all for the input.

I'm glad you got it fixed! I'm curious how you did that, though. The square piece is threaded onto a machine screw that is seated into the bridge. I can't envision a way of lowering or raising that block without unseating it from the bridge which I imagine would have its own problems.

 

[Nuuska]

Maybe the intonation screw and that square block w roller screw were somehow stuck - andt therefore said string was a bit higher and "ramp angle" a bit turned . . . ?

 

[riachuelo]

I'm glad you got it fixed! I'm curious how you did that, though. The square piece is threaded onto a machine screw that is seated into the bridge. I can't envision a way of lowering or raising that block without unseating it from the bridge which I imagine would have its own problems.

I unscrewed the saddle from that perpendicular screw, which is that square piece. Then, at the bottom of the bridge, I unscrewed the vertical screw that holds the square piece. After that — here’s where the tweezers come in because the amount of space to work in was tiny — I held the square piece as close to the bridge bottom as I could while screwing that vertical screw back in. By holding it as tight as I could while threading that screw back in I was able to position the square piece a little closer to the bridge center than it had been. Was all this meticulous and calibrated with calipers and rulers? No. But it appears to have fixed my problem and didn’t mess up the intonation, either.

 

[riachuelo]

Maybe the intonation screw and that square block w roller screw were somehow stuck - andt therefore said string was a bit higher and "ramp angle" a bit turned . . . ?

Maybe this was the case. But it was easy enough to unscrew both of them and then reset a bit further down.