The BSTRD upgrade - WRHB/bigsby content

[winny pooh]

Years ago I posted about my pawnshop find, A gibson scale Hoyer Tele deluxe copy with original vintage wide range buckers. Its affectionately known as the Bstrd because of the annoying U neck, insane rock tone and list of replaced parts (by me)
-tuners, frets, string trees, pick-guard, pots, knobs, jack, strap buttons, switch, screws etc.

Here we have the 3rd and probably final incarnation. I bought a repro bigsby for a project (a gift for a buddy) but opted not to use it, so having sat around for months in my parts box it seemed the most stupidly obvious thing to do was to add it to the bstrd. (duh! how could this have eluded me for so long?)
So I chopped up a fender Japan bridge, added wilky saddles & notches ala RomanS's clever mod and installed the bigsby.
But first: some pics:

originally:


then:


Finally:


I had to do a large amount of setup, un-shimming and trying to adjust the intonation haha (have a look) and am surprised how much more loose and twangy the strings sound, maybe not necessarily better but I don't mind with all that bigsby mojo happening.
You like?

[Telenator]

Wow! You played the engraved logos right off those pickups! LOL! Cool guitar!

[tuuur]

Kind a missed this thread, but... looks the part! How does it sound after the upgrade? Any soundclips?

[winny pooh]

Gosh, I really should post a clip. Imagine an SG with bite and godzilla testicles played by Neil Young That's also why i named it the B$St$rd.