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I just found a N.O.S, Chrome one that I had forgotten about having.
If you would put it to use the day you open the package let me know.
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mickey wrote:I just found a N.O.S, Chrome one that I had forgotten about having.
If you would put it to use the day you open the package let me know.
I've got two already, and sold 2 guitars with them installed as well. They are sweet.

I now wonder if one would work fix the hack job Chibson V I bought as a "custom" via AGF, since the saddles sit so much higher it would probably be the perfect setup on a setneck looking at it in my head...
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I've got a couple, one on my Fender Strat and one on my SX-SST62.
I'll never use the one I found today.
Couldn't be happier with the ones I have and as we both know you can't do better.
Pity that Custom Shop Parts went belly up.

I'm clueless as to using one on a Vee. :)

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Will it work on a righty guitar? I need one for this below. I have actually been looking for something similar for months
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Sam, to be 100% honest with you, I don't know because I've only dealt with them on leftys. :)
PM me your postal info and I'll drop it in the mail to you.
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This is so cool. I remember yours from back in the day and really have been looking for one or something similar. Need to repay you with something lefty.
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SamIV wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:00 pm This is so cool. I remember yours from back in the day and really have been looking for one or something similar. Need to repay you with something lefty.
Just pay the postage & I'll be happy. :D
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Let me know what the postage is. Ain’t this site still so cool. Thanks Mickey.
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You're welcome Sam. I'll get it in the mail one day this week.
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Well it's on it's way to righty land but just to educate myself, why would I have wanted one?
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tobijohn wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:15 pm Well it's on it's way to righty land but just to educate myself, why would I have wanted one?
It is the best hard tail bridge for a strat that has ever been.
But the company that made them went belly up about 10 years ago.
N.O.S. ones are virtually impossible to find today.
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Well that's a shame as two disassembled Strats are laid out on my dining room table...
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I've never had one, but on the basis of potentially machining that, wow. That is thick. I just had to look it up - machined from 1 piece of brass. So they throw away more brass than they sell to you. That's why it is expensive (the machining more than the brass).
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BatUtilityBelt wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:56 pm I've never had one, but on the basis of potentially machining that, wow. That is thick. I just had to look it up - machined from 1 piece of brass. So they throw away more brass than they sell to you. That's why it is expensive (the machining more than the brass).
They aren't one piece. It is 2 pieces. The block that the saddles are in is separate from the baseplate and they are screwed together.

However, it is all high precision and high mass.
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honyock wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 11:19 pm
BatUtilityBelt wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:56 pm I've never had one, but on the basis of potentially machining that, wow. That is thick. I just had to look it up - machined from 1 piece of brass. So they throw away more brass than they sell to you. That's why it is expensive (the machining more than the brass).
They aren't one piece. It is 2 pieces. The block that the saddles are in is separate from the baseplate and they are screwed together.

However, it is all high precision and high mass.
Ah, I am glad to stand corrected. In that case, some machine shop somewhere would be willing to make them for a reasonable cost given specs.
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