6/2/2023 0 Comments Compensated wraparound bridgeThus far this simple.and easy to obtain.Gotoh part, out of the box, seems closest to what I want, and it is tune-able to a degree. The more seems, IMO the worse it gets with these.I need adjustments but gentlemen.lets keep them tight and simple. Tone-wise.we value the wrap bridge (when it is executed well). You will not be seeing really tall saddles that can be notched deeper in order to accomodate say, a 10".or a 9".īut, I would not want it any other way. This is a very important limitation.that is shared by all other wrap bridges.they are all confined to a fixed arch. You are confined to a 12" radius bridge arch. It's not perfect."perfect"would be a combo of the TonePros locking studs/Gotoh locking studs.given a choice of one or the other, IMO Gotoh wins.Ī. THAT is where.given a single choice."locking" needs to be. Look at the pic again.do you see the holes in the middle of the top/slot on the posts? That is where you insert an allen key, in order to tighten a setscrew.which takes up all of the slack in the post/insert union. There is always a lot of slop in the mating threads bridge post/threaded body insert. Here, Gotoh put the locking where it most needs to be.ie, jamming the threads between the posts/body inserts. It all depends upon the desired acoustical tone of the final chassis, which of course sets all the limits as to what can be amplified. Useful, and a kid could hear the diff thru the amplifier. I will elect to do this as a kind-of final "voicing stage" of the acoustic chassis. The second mod allows me to put more "point" in the overall chassis' acoustic tone, at a place that can be useful for given projects. One mod, which I do to all of them, maximizes the overall "monolithic" traits.sounds more like a solid piece. It has the material in the right places that allows me to mod the tone, too. This is the most "solid-sounding" wrap that Ive been willing to offer. To my ears this bridge has a lot going for it as follows:ī. The first one was borne a bridge, and later was delegated to what we all know as a "stop tailpiece", the only diff being that the bridge version had 2 setscrews which would allow one to mod the angle of the entire unit, in order to get the intonation a bit closer. The Gibson wraps came in two flavors, primarily. It's mainly a Gibson-thing when we look at both the design of the thing and also, the demand for it. I am looking for an extremely solid bridge that preserves as much of the fundamental tone of the raw chassis as possible. The prob being that some rattled and some did not. When TonePros brought out their wrap bridge, I built a number of guitars with them, and when they were good they were pretty good (altho the saddles were too low IMO). Leave it to Tom to get things right.and Jack too.I have not tried them to date. Now, in defense of Pigtail, our Jack Briggs told me that I should have ordered the version featuring the (Tom) "Anderson saddles". The saddles themselves were, IMO, too soft and too low-profile. I did go ahead and try them on the guitars and overall, the acoustic nature of the guitars was shifted into a rather funky zone that didnt reflect the sound of the raw chassis'.kind of a "point" around 900Hz-1KHz. All three bridges rattled like a mini-maraca when shaken.
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