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| Author: | jamesnv [ Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | aluminum bridges |
hi, i am planning on yousing a wraparound bridge on my cherry sg, what are your opinions of aluminum bridges verses, say a tone pros bridge ? also has anybody yoused such a bridge & had the strings run through the body? thanks |
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| Author: | alan stassforth [ Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: aluminum bridges |
I never tried alum, but some claim it has a brighter tone, on a lap steel, which is a straight thick bar, usually. I would think the little saddles made of alum might wear out where the string rides on them. I might be wrong. I like brass personally because a lot of bells are made of it, and they sound good. |
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| Author: | Rusty [ Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: aluminum bridges |
I just received a Pigtail aluminum wraparound because I am experimenting with bridges at the moment. I have heard good things about these, but the one I just received from Stewmac is something I can not sell on my guitars. The surface area of the bridge was pitted instead of smooth. So were the saddles as well as one of the saddles having a chip taken out of it. Very poor finishing quality on these. Unless I got a bad one. Don't know. It is the lightest wraparound I've got my hands on, but the Tonepros AVT2 is a very close 2nd. I'm going to stick with the Tonepros wraparound. |
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| Author: | Stuart Gort [ Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: aluminum bridges |
That sounds like a poor quality casting. There are lots of ways to cast aluminum and it isn't that difficult to obtain a void free part. It's surprising a poorly manufactured product gets all the way to this point. I'm machining my own bridge design this week from extruded 360 brass. I'll probably throw in a few of them made from 6061-T651 aluminum while I'm at it though I expect that the aluminum will prove too soft in the final analysis. |
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| Author: | jamesnv [ Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: aluminum bridges |
thanks for the heads up, i was looking at the aluminum pigtail that stewmac has, i dont think i can go wrong with the tone pros, |
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