Acoustic looking Strat bridge...AKA "Scartozi Bridge"

[stubhead]

For all intensive porpoises, it looks like an "isometric" drawing, which has a 1:1:1 aspect ratio. If you drew a 1" cube in this, every line defining the surfaces intersection would be... 1". Perspective drawing looks "realer" to the  human eye, but it's a bitch to get accurate measurements from. If you handed a perspective drawing to an engineer and said
"make this" he'd fall over laughing, or at least twitch an eyebrow - engineer stylin'.  arty07:

Engineering drawings are strictly for communicating information. There's another type called "bi-metric" which is drawn using X, Y, Z values of 4:4:3 or 4:3:3, depending on which features of the object needed more emphasis, although you'd ALWAYS need at least two drawings in  2 dimensions to cover everything. The ratios used go right in the page's title block, and all the engineers know the secret handshake. This might seem prissy about a cube ( or a bridge!) but these are what they used to build houses and space shuttles and all. The only reason I know this is because I shacked up with a lady architect who's sole job was to take a pile of new-house engineering drawings and make warm happy HOME drawings for the prospective buyers - perspectivetise them, throw in some trees and bushes, happy little junior on his bicycle, an adorable li'l doggie etc.

 

[Cagey]

Makes sense. I've done a lot of drawing, but 98.7% of them have been electrical/electronic schematics and layouts where you generally don't have a third dimension, or you can effectively ignore it.

 

[stubhead]

If you physically hold a ruler or some dividers up to the picture on the computer screen, you'll find that all of the long lines are identical to each other, and so are the short lines. Which has the effect of making the back "wall" look even LARGER than the front because your human eyes are demanding  SOME SORT OF ORDER HERE, GUYS! M.C. Escher dined out on this stuff.

http://www.maniacworld.com/ames-room-illusion.html

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[scartozi]

Here are a couple pics of the brass bridge. Since this bridge was getting aged I didn't spend to much time polishing but I did take a couple pics before it was aged and a few after. I'll try to get some better pics of it on the guitar.

 

[scartozi]

and a few more

 

[scartozi]

one more

 

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COOL  :icon_thumright:

Can you weigh it please ?  :icon_biggrin:

The weight of the aluminium 6 hole vintage trem replacement 'scartozi bridge' weighs in at 62grams.
Without any saddles on it !!

edit ... about 81grams with Graph Tech saddles

That aged look ... looks very similar to the Bare Knuckle pups aged look  :icon_thumright:

 

[DangerousR6]

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[scartozi]

I would weigh it.....but, there are two issues. 1, I don't have a scale and 2 I just got the bridge installed. I will definitely weigh the next one...cagey's  perhaps.  U would say that the brass is about 3-4 times heavier than its aluminum brother....but that's just a guess

 

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Yep no worries  :icon_thumright:  just thought it would be of interest for your spec's etc.

 

[scartozi]

It is something I plan on doing with all the bridges and blocks.....maybe I should buy a scale :dontknow:

I'll get a specs list together eventually :icon_biggrin:

 

[DangerousR6]

when Cagey's brass comes in I'll weigh it and a aluminum blank for comparison.. :icon_thumright:

 

[DangerousR6]

Cagey's bridge.. :laughing7:

 

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Looks better than his so called 'Gold' one already  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[DangerousR6]

Looks better than his so called 'Gold' one already  :icon_jokercolor:

Oooooouch, damn that hurt....

 

[Cagey]

I like this one so far. Very unassuming. If you didn't know any better, you wouldn't think it's a bridge at all.

 

[bagman67]

I like this one so far. Very unassuming. If you didn't know any better, you wouldn't think it's a bridge at all.

Yeah, but try setting the intonation on it.  Lotsa luck on that one.

 

[DangerousR6]

Just for comparison, brass billet for a bridge weighs 14.25oz and aluminum weighs 5.25oz

But in the future if you'd like to compare metal density's..

L x W x H x ?

steel= .284
aluminum= .097
brass= .310
stainless= .283
Titanium= .163

These numbers represent 1 cubic inch.  So if we have a piece of steel that is 12" x 12" x 12" = 1728 x .284 = 490lbs

 

[DangerousR6]

I like this one so far. Very unassuming. If you didn't know any better, you wouldn't think it's a bridge at all.

It's a super stealth ninja bridge...

 

[scartozi]

I wasn't to far off with my guess of of weighing 3 times more than aluminum:cool01

You're really gonna like the brass :icon_thumright: