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Bender on something else?

Sargeslide
March 28th, 2008, 09:36 PM
I will get Pics up soon, I put a hipshot B bender with a drop d on my Burny LP Special Copy. I used a roller bridge, ran both dtrings thru the stop tailpeice and used the teflon tubing there. It worked great! Sound nice, plays good and I can even get pseudo tele tones

Wonder what other gits you can put these on?

Sargeslide

bender-freak
March 28th, 2008, 10:12 PM
i've put them on teles, strats, LP's, 335's, full body jazz boxes; just about any guitar made can be "bent" with a Hipshot...that's the beauty of the beast......and it usually can be done with very little alteration needed....

J. Hayes
March 28th, 2008, 10:12 PM
an Ibanez Artist solid body and also on a Les Paul Standard and it worked very well in both situations, however I didn't have the E to D toggle as I hate those things, I prefer the E to D lower on the headstock by either a HipShot D-Tuner or a Keith/Scruggs Banjo tuner......JH in Va.

jmiles
March 29th, 2008, 06:23 AM
I've had mine on various Danos. It's currently on my repro Dano Guitarlin. 31 frets of silver-flecked Longhorn wackyness! I've been playing Hipshots since they first were introduced. I've had a lot of experience with roller nuts and bridges. They're tone suckers, and entirely unnecessary. The same guitar ALWAYS sounded better without the roller stuff A little lube works just fine, and doesn't decouple the string from the guitar as much as the various parts in roller stuff. Next time you change strings, try your old stock bridge, and see how the guitar sounds.

telesavant
March 29th, 2008, 06:51 AM
I agree with the roller nuts/bridges being a detriment to tone, due to the small axle the roller is on....that's the sound transfer point...not much mass, and in my experience, probably won't roll anyway, with a plain string, or any string pulled such a short distance. I used my Hipshot on a variety of guitars with great results, usually as an ancillary pull to a strap system of some sort. My design can also be used on any guitar, mixed with a hipshot, Parsons/White, or Glaser.