Stoptail bridges; do you wrap around?
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Eagle
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Wrapping feels looser and let’s you screw down the tailpiece to the body without making the break angle too severe.
I personally prefer through but raising the tailpiece to the correct hight to prevent a double contact with the abr1 and particularly with a Nashville. The optimal position is higher than most people think.
I personally prefer through but raising the tailpiece to the correct hight to prevent a double contact with the abr1 and particularly with a Nashville. The optimal position is higher than most people think.
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Any recommendations on what that would be exactly? Or generally?
Steinmetzify
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I don’t do it BUT this LP is in drop B and I’m at 12-60.
I need that tightness for the riffs I’m doing. If you’re not doing Crowbar type stuff/playing slower riff type tunes do your thing.
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Not only does that not mean the tension in the string itself is any different but the intonation point is pushed forward and the double contact interferes with the tone and reduces the down force on the witness points. This is the worst of all situations.
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Start with the bottom of the stop tail roughly in line with bottom of the thumb wheel on the tunamatic.
James Freeman
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Maybe not a popular opinion but I think the tune-o-matic bridge is not a very solid design.
With time, string tension bends the saddle out of shape and moves it forward creating intonation problems.
"Collapsed" (concave) tune-o-matic bridges and bent posts are way too common especially the older ABR-1 models.
Wraparound mitigates this.
With time, string tension bends the saddle out of shape and moves it forward creating intonation problems.
"Collapsed" (concave) tune-o-matic bridges and bent posts are way too common especially the older ABR-1 models.
Wraparound mitigates this.
Eagle
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It's not so much the design as the pot metal.Maybe not a popular opinion but I think the tune-o-matic bridge is not a very solid design.
With time, string tension bends the saddle out of shape and moves it forward creating intonation problems.
"Collapsed" (concave) tune-o-matic bridges and bent posts are way too common especially the older ABR-1 models.
Wraparound mitigates this.
the-trooper
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Genuinely, this is the first time I've *ever* seen anything like this!Maybe not a popular opinion but I think the tune-o-matic bridge is not a very solid design.
With time, string tension bends the saddle out of shape and moves it forward creating intonation problems.
"Collapsed" (concave) tune-o-matic bridges and bent posts are way too common especially the older ABR-1 models.
Wraparound mitigates this.
I had what I think was a 90's GOTOH TOM bridge on mine with no issues, but I recently swapped it out for a TonePros locking bridge, not for any reason other than aesthetics really!
the-trooper
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Oh, there's been more than one subject about it on the forums. You're obviously spending way to little time online
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Oh no, I spend loads of time online. Just usually in off topic areas calling people C*nts and hack frauds!Oh, there's been more than one subject about it on the forums. You're obviously spending way to little time online
Eagle
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Gotoh make that too.
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Yah, wasn't in stock though over here, so ended up with the TonePros. It's cool. But it's a bridge. Does the job.
Eagle
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I mean the tone pros is a Gotoh OEM with the grub screws added .
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ahhhhhhhh! I was not aware of that!
