American Fender bridge for something out of my parts box?

[rapfohl09]

I have a need for a Fender American standard hardtail bridge and honestly just don't feel like shelling out for one.

I have a shoe box full of extra parts that I have been sitting on, so I was hoping I could strike a deal with someone out there. Unless otherwise noted all of these pieces have been barely handled and not used at all.

Chrome vintage strat style bridge:
http://www.warmoth.com/Strat-Flat-Mount-Bridge-Vintage-Spacing-Chrome-P118C703.aspx

Chrome All-parts 2 3/16" spacing bridge:
http://www.allparts.com/SB-0100-010-Chrome-Non-Tremolo-Bridge_p_3213.html

Either 2 sets of 3+3 headstock tuners, or one set of 6 left and a set of 6 right, Chrome:
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/Guitar,_solid_peghead_tuners/Gotoh_Tuners/Gotoh_Schaller-style_Knob_Tuners_6-In-Line.html?tab=Details

or

http://www.warmoth.com/Gotoh-SG38-Tuner-Left-Side-Chrome-P980C727.aspx

Not sure which and am not around them to check, will check later.

GFS Crunchy pat bridge pickup - this I soldered up once and used, but barely cut any of the wire to do it. It is technically used.
http://www.guitarfetish.com/Crunchy-PAT-High-Output-Humbucker-Black_c_139.html

GFS Power Rails bridge - black
http://www.guitarfetish.com/GFS-Power-Rails-Crushing-power-Killer-Tone-Black_c_105.html

Gibson 496R and 500T pickups, both quite used and the wires have been cut. Not too short to not be able to use, but the have been cut.

EMG 81 pickup - used, just the pickup, no wiring stuff. it got ruined when I took it out of the guitar.

Anyone? Anything? If there is anything you are feeling like just let me know, even if you don't have that bridge.

 

[Cagey]

Why can't you use one of the hardtail bridges you've got there?

 

[rapfohl09]

Why can't you use one of the hardtail bridges you've got there?

That is a good point, I assumed the string through holes wouldn't match up. They might though. I haven't had any luck with the bridges I have here with the previous bodies I've gotten from Warmoth. I'm sure the vintage one wont work, maybe the 2 3/16" spread will work.

 

[Jumble Jumble]

I put a narrow-spaced bridge on a strat body the other day, and the body had originally been drilled by Warmoth for the vintage-spaced bridge. The mounting holes for the bridge were in the same place, and I simply drilled the string-through holes out to 5mm from the top side. Works fine.

 

[stubhead]

The wide bridges get sketchy IF: you're using big frets, and you round the fret ends much. That 2 3/16" to 2 7/32" spacing seemed marginal to me even with original little vintage frets. The move to the 2 1/8" to 2 1/16" bridges is the easy way to compensate for the higher-then-beveled-inward frets. I'd like to just have a wider neck - a number of custom guys make a pretty penny just cause they make BIG NECKED guitars - Benedetto, Abe Rivera, etc. I believe you could sell some big bolt-ons, there are so many people wanting even like classical-influenced necks.

I know that a few body/neck makers sell extra-wide necks (with wider pockets a la USACG, or overhangs a la Warmoth), but only in the one size, no 24 frets, no flatter radius, no scalloping, no lefties etc. I just want everything at once. :-\ Right now too.
Or a pocket CNC machine or a million dollars. Got any cute sisters..... :hello2:

 

[Cagey]

I believe you could sell some big bolt-ons, there are so many people wanting even like classical-influenced necks.

I built a Strat for a member here earlier this year that had a neck like that. 1 7/8" nut, extra wide 'board. Thing was like a superhighway relative to what I'm used to. But, that was his thing - he was moving from a classical guitar to an electric, and wanted some semblance of familiarity. 

 

[Jumble Jumble]

My brother-in-law is a bassist by default. Not his fault of course, it's just genetics, you play the hand you're dealt.

Anyway, he plays a 12-string acoustic with only six strings on it. It's impossible for me to play but he gets around it very smartly.

 

[stubhead]

The thing that keeps me away from Warmoth's or USA's wide neck offerings is, I would like a neck that was normal width where it needs to be, 1 11/16" nut's just fine - but ALSO WIDE WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE TOO,  like, where the strings are falling off the edge of the neck up top if you use a wide bridge and jumbo AND properly dressed frets - duh. Bit by bit, the culture chips away at all the things LEO GOT WRONG THE FIRST TIME - tiny frets, 7.5" fingerboard radius, squealy pickups, hummy pickups, dumb switching, retarded whammies etc. - all of these were at one point or another considered tests of manhood, endurance, musical drive - (?) But when both E's are falling off opposite sides of the neck,  well, hmmph. One of these years I may just get weird enough to buy one of the aircraft carriers and whack off some wood at the nut end.

 

[rapfohl09]

I have wondered how a bridge with a 2 1/4" string spread ever worked around the upper frets on a guitar. I bought that bridge thinking I would use it at some point and just looking at it makes me think I wouldnt be able to put it on a standard 2 3/16" heel.

Who knows though, obviously people have. Whenever I make necks myself I always widen the heel up.

 

[Cagey]

Yeah, that would be kinda close. There is some narrowing that occurs from the bridge to the nut, though, so the string spacing at the 22nd fret isn't as wide as you might think without looking at it. For instance, I have a Tele here with a 1 11/16" nut and 2 1/8" string spacing at the bridge, so the string spacing at the 22nd fret is ~1 15/16". Since the standard Strat/Tele neck heel width is 2 3/16", that leaves roughly 1/8" of fret on either side of the two Es. That's pretty comfy, even considering dressing. But, you'd eat a lot of that up with a 2 1/4" spacing at the bridge.