What's the use case for a thickness measurement tool in a guitar toolkit?
I purchased a toolkit specifically designed for guitars, and beside the tools I expected, it contained this:
The description lists it as a thickness measurement tool. What thickness would one measure with this on a guitar? Distance between strings and fretboard?
Googling only gave me results about building guitars from scratch, but the rest of the toolkit is basic stuff like Allen keys and a string winder, so I assume there is some more regular use of that tool.
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Those are called “feeler gauges” and can measure all kinds of things. Distance between strings and the fingerboard or the frets is one common use for them. I just used my set yesterday to measure string height at the nut. Another likely place to use them would be string height above a pickup. You could also measure the height of a floating tremolo bridge above the body.
If you’re building a guitar, you might want to measure gaps between parts and other small spaces like that.
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