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Pierce · January 26th, 2004, 03:21 PM

It seems I remeber somone here did a bigsby without using the mustang styled "tone suckling" bridge. I'm looking at a Bigsby trem on ebay and wondering what I'd have to do to use my exisitng bridge..http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=41407

0le FUZZY · January 26th, 2004, 03:37 PM

<li>A Gypsin style roller saddle bridge section onna Custom I haff here.
<li>I jes used a flat-style Tele bridge and bolted the roller-saddles tew it from the back.
<li>It werks purdy good iffin yer into Bigsby style Teles.
<li>Rite now its jes a big E and B bender kinda deal.

BootRoots · January 26th, 2004, 03:37 PM

what about using a tunomatic? Could that work? I have been wondering about trying that on my bigsby equiped tele.

TeleGeir · January 26th, 2004, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Pierce

It seems I remeber somone here did a bigsby without using the mustang styled "tone suckling" bridge. I'm looking at a Bigsby trem on ebay and wondering what I'd have to do to use my exisitng bridge..http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=41407

I did it with my Buck Owens tele. Basically, all you have to do is cut slots in the rear wall of the bridge. Note, this only works for 3 saddle vintage ones. You cannot do it with modern saddles, for obvious reasons, and on vintage 6 saddle ones the screws get in the way of the slots. It would possibly work with a modern bridge if you put Larry Fontana's saddles on them, but you may find that the screws get in the way even then.

Geir :)

Pierce · January 26th, 2004, 04:03 PM

do you see where it would be a problem with that?

Pierce · January 26th, 2004, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 0le FUZZY

<li>A Gypsin style roller saddle bridge section onna Custom I haff here.
<li>I jes used a flat-style Tele bridge and bolted the roller-saddles tew it from the back.
<li>It werks purdy good iffin yer into Bigsby style Teles.
<li>Rite now its jes a big E and B bender kinda deal.

black tele he got from me? I was trying to get away from drilling the keepers in a vintage body..I would have no problem in a repro or an import. That black tele had more holes in it than...scrapes. I ended up buying that back and selling it on ebay

TeleGeir · January 26th, 2004, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Pierce

do you see where it would be a problem with that?

Not really, but I haven't tried compensated ones. The main issue with this approach is the strings pass the saddles at a very wide angle, leaving little downward pressure and a smaller area of contact between the saddle and the string. You may find the strings sliding on the saddles in the beginning, until they settle. I guess you could cut grooves in them.

It has happened once or twice to me, when bending heavily, even though mine have grooves.

Geir :)

0le FUZZY · January 26th, 2004, 04:17 PM

<li>Yer still roun these parts!!
<li>YEP !! ats the same one.
<li>I wunner iffin my sig. iss still onna neck? HEE! HEE!
<li>Good ta cee yew roun these parts again Tom.

---0.F.---

Pierce · January 26th, 2004, 04:37 PM

that was an import..has about 30 signatures by now.
Jack loaded it up with decals to cover the sins of abuse

been here all along..,mostly on the amp end of things

rusticman · January 26th, 2004, 06:29 PM

i have a bigsby tele. i had the vintage bridge and filed down notches for the stings. the drawback is that its hard to intonate the bridge after the bigsby unit is installed. i couldn fit a screwdriver in the right angle.
it switshed to the mustang style setup and it now works great.

Tele295 · January 26th, 2004, 06:55 PM

I've got a vintage style bridge with 3 compensated saddles. Plenty of pictures of my guitar (sunburst Thinline with Bardens) are floating around here. I did cut grooves for the two E strings, as it's narrow coming out of the Bigsby. Keep the bridge pieces and nut lubricated. I intonated without the Bigsby bridge on. It would be a little difficult to adjust, but I guess it was set up to begin with, and I have not needed to make any adustments.

I don't find the difference in downward pressure to affect it that much.

Pierce · January 26th, 2004, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tele295

I've got a vintage style bridge with 3 compensated saddles. Plenty of pictures of my guitar (sunburst Thinline with Bardens) are floating around here. I did cut grooves for the two E strings, as it's narrow coming out of the Bigsby. Keep the bridge pieces and nut lubricated. I intonated without the Bigsby bridge on. It would be a little difficult to adjust, but I guess it was set up to begin with, and I have not needed to make any adustments.

I don't find the difference in downward pressure to affect it that much.

are you stringing everyting thru the bigsby or some thru the ferrules also?

Tele295 · January 26th, 2004, 08:32 PM

Everything goes through the Bisgby, although it was a string-through body for the first few years I had it. Added the Bigsby in 1997, compensated saddles in 2002.

guitar_ed · January 26th, 2004, 08:39 PM

and I used a roller TOM. I like rollers when I have a Bigsby, less string breakage Smoother action.

Guitar Ed
Advice worth what you paid for it. Nothing.

Pierce · January 27th, 2004, 05:46 PM

screw it thru the bridge plate?

January 26th, 2004, 03:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
Pierce Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: skull island Posts: 477	bigsby for a tele question..to bridge or not to bridge It seems I remeber somone here did a bigsby without using the mustang styled "tone suckling" bridge. I'm looking at a Bigsby trem on ebay and wondering what I'd have to do to use my exisitng bridge..http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=41407

January 26th, 2004, 03:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
0le FUZZY Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kolly-forn-knee-ya Posts: 9,999 6 Photos	I used <li>A Gypsin style roller saddle bridge section onna Custom I haff here. <li>I jes used a flat-style Tele bridge and bolted the roller-saddles tew it from the back. <li>It werks purdy good iffin yer into Bigsby style Teles. <li>Rite now its jes a big E and B bender kinda deal.

January 26th, 2004, 03:37 PM	#3 (permalink)
BootRoots Tele-Meister Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 367	Re: bigsby for a tele question..to bridge or not to bridge what about using a tunomatic? Could that work? I have been wondering about trying that on my bigsby equiped tele.

January 26th, 2004, 04:03 PM	#5 (permalink)
Pierce Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: skull island Posts: 477	I seem to have a plethora of intonated saddles do you see where it would be a problem with that?

January 26th, 2004, 04:17 PM	#8 (permalink)
0le FUZZY Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kolly-forn-knee-ya Posts: 9,999 6 Photos	HAY WAY KOOL ! <li>Yer still roun these parts!! <li>YEP !! ats the same one. <li>I wunner iffin my sig. iss still onna neck? HEE! HEE! <li>Good ta cee yew roun these parts again Tom. ---0.F.---

January 26th, 2004, 04:37 PM	#9 (permalink)
Pierce Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: skull island Posts: 477	that warmoth neck is on a buddies tele that was an import..has about 30 signatures by now. Jack loaded it up with decals to cover the sins of abuse been here all along..,mostly on the amp end of things

January 26th, 2004, 06:29 PM	#10 (permalink)
rusticman Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: NORWAY Age: 30 Posts: 404	bigsby i have a bigsby tele. i had the vintage bridge and filed down notches for the stings. the drawback is that its hard to intonate the bridge after the bigsby unit is installed. i couldn fit a screwdriver in the right angle. it switshed to the mustang style setup and it now works great.

January 26th, 2004, 06:55 PM	#11 (permalink)
Tele295 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: St. Latchodrom, CA Posts: 4,028 14 Photos	I've got a vintage style bridge with 3 compensated saddles. Plenty of pictures of my guitar (sunburst Thinline with Bardens) are floating around here. I did cut grooves for the two E strings, as it's narrow coming out of the Bigsby. Keep the bridge pieces and nut lubricated. I intonated without the Bigsby bridge on. It would be a little difficult to adjust, but I guess it was set up to begin with, and I have not needed to make any adustments. I don't find the difference in downward pressure to affect it that much. __________________ "Turn it up and it doesn't need any reverb." - Danny Gatton www.dannygatton.info Tiger Town Aces - Music That Bites Back In Redd we trust! Free Bill Kirchen! If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

January 26th, 2004, 08:32 PM	#13 (permalink)
Tele295 Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: St. Latchodrom, CA Posts: 4,028 14 Photos	Everything goes through the Bisgby, although it was a string-through body for the first few years I had it. Added the Bigsby in 1997, compensated saddles in 2002. __________________ "Turn it up and it doesn't need any reverb." - Danny Gatton www.dannygatton.info Tiger Town Aces - Music That Bites Back In Redd we trust! Free Bill Kirchen! If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

January 26th, 2004, 08:39 PM	#14 (permalink)
guitar_ed Tele-Holic Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Bankrupt State of California Age: 48 Posts: 712 16 Photos	I built a Tele w/ a Bigsby recently..... and I used a roller TOM. I like rollers when I have a Bigsby, less string breakage Smoother action. Guitar Ed Advice worth what you paid for it. Nothing. __________________ Piss off a politician, register to vote. When you complain about the government, remember that you ARE the government. Voting is the ultimate act of civil dis-obediance. AIM - guitar_edg Skype - guitar_edg (had to change on 5/16/06)

January 27th, 2004, 05:46 PM	#15 (permalink)
Pierce Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: skull island Posts: 477	how did you mount the roller bridge screw it thru the bridge plate?

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