Bigsby B5, best bridge for it?

[scubadoo]

Hello, I'm thinking about building a quilted maple thinline with a B5. I'm avoiding the B16 as it just looks ugly to me.

What are the best bridge options? I guess I can use a standard bridge and file notches? I also like the look of the Mastery bridge but that is a lot of money. Are there any other ideas? pics would be great.

I also need to figure out where to leave wood in the body to support the bigsby but that should be easy enough when i have it in hand.

Cheers
Dave

[originalmatthew]

Heres a link to a gallery of pics of LOTS of teles with bigsbys on em. Theres quite a few different bridges being used.
Lots of different bridges will work, you just have to decide which way you wanna go! I kinda like the look of the tan colored one with what looks like a floating ric style bridge and p-90's. Clean and uncluttered, but thats just me.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~msengers/htm/gallery.htm

[JasonRobert]

ive used this with great sucess... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/6-string-guita...3%3A1|294%3A30

I have also tried the rick style, and although I prefer the look of the rick style bridge, the one that stayed in tune best was the roller bridge.

[RomanS]

Notched vintage style 3-saddle bridge is the best option - no neck shimming required, and noc hange in tone. I personally like the Wilkinson bridge with compensated brass saddles.

I also tried a roller bridge with a Bigsby (a B16, though, and the roller bridge was the Wilkinson as sold by Guitarfetish) - nothing but trouble (weird sitar-like noises, loss of sustain, etc.)! Changed to a regular TOM, and while it still doesn't sound like a Tele at all (the ahstray bridge really is important for a true Tele tone, Bigsby or not...), all the problems from the roller bridge are gone!