I want to use a short Tele bridge on my first Warmoth build as I like the exposed bridge pickup look. I can't find a black short style bridge anywhere.......The best I have found is a black Wilkinson Tele bridge which I could cut down. Can anyone help please???
Cannot find a short Tele black bridge.........
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Here you go
http://www.wdmusic.com/product10280.html
http://www.wdmusic.com/product10280.html
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Same one, different site. Just sayin.
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Thanks, I knew there was another site that had themAutoBat said:
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$15 difference, just sayin
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I think all us are the A team. I am just glad Autobat found the other site cause I knew I had saw it for cheaper. I was under a time crunch this AM as I had to load up to go play this AM, so posted the 1st site I kewn of that had it.
ccasion14:Thanks everyone for the help. Each website quotes different string spacings for the same bridge.
WD Music says the individual string spacing is 10.8mm, which equals 54mm, which is the equivalent of 2 1/8". This is good as the Tele body I have is drilled for this spacing.
Guitarfetish quote the string spacing as 2 7/32", which to me means just short of 2 1/4". This will not fit the body I have.
Does anyone know for sure which spacing is correct? BTW imperial measurements do my head in.........seeing as we use metric in Australia........
Thanks again, Pete
WD Music says the individual string spacing is 10.8mm, which equals 54mm, which is the equivalent of 2 1/8". This is good as the Tele body I have is drilled for this spacing.
Guitarfetish quote the string spacing as 2 7/32", which to me means just short of 2 1/4". This will not fit the body I have.
Does anyone know for sure which spacing is correct? BTW imperial measurements do my head in.........seeing as we use metric in Australia........
Thanks again, Pete
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I'm not sure any spacing is "correct". It's a matter of preference, to a large degree. Some players like a lot of neck real estate on the outside edges, while others would prefer more space between strings and the edges don't matter as much. If it was me, I'd want the 2 1/8"/2.125"/53.975mm width. That leaves 1/16"/.062"/1.587mm on the two outside edges. Keeps you from pulling/pushing the high/low E string(s) off the neck. But, that's just me.
Vintage (wide) spacing worked OK when frets were vintage (low) and medium strings were gauged 12-56, back when Strats and Teles were introduced. The combination of light strings for playing styles that encompass string bending and high frets means that Fender's vintage bridge spacing is too wide, or the necks are too narrow.... The "classic" Floyd Rose spacing copied Fender's wide bridge, and one reason that Ibanez sells so many guitars to locking-tremolo users is that Ibanez fixed the bridge width. There are certain advantages and disadvantages to either spacing, regardless of neck width - for example, it is easier to fingerpick with the wider spacing, but not at the cost of the strings running out of fret.
A number of custom luthiers basically make their bones by providing entire guitars that have necks wide enough to use the "classic" bridge spacing. I for one wish that what are called "superwide" necks became the new standard, because it is a sort of ridiculous "problem" that you can buy a $2,000 guitar and the strings fall off the neck, but for now both Warmoth and USA Custom charge extra for a neck that fits a "standard" width bridge, in fact USA Custom only sells them with a matching extra-wide neck pocket-routed (2-5/16") body... but thems the breaks. Evolution doesn't proceed evenly, witness human sinuses that still drain forward not down (if you stayed on your hands and knees, there would be no sinus problems) and the whole lower-back thing hasn't been worked out yet... though the next "big hit mutation" may be either a digestive tract that can subsist entirely on synthetic foods, or a brain that can exist on specious nonsense only. Break out the neck bolts and battery clamps kids, opporknockity tunes....
A number of custom luthiers basically make their bones by providing entire guitars that have necks wide enough to use the "classic" bridge spacing. I for one wish that what are called "superwide" necks became the new standard, because it is a sort of ridiculous "problem" that you can buy a $2,000 guitar and the strings fall off the neck, but for now both Warmoth and USA Custom charge extra for a neck that fits a "standard" width bridge, in fact USA Custom only sells them with a matching extra-wide neck pocket-routed (2-5/16") body... but thems the breaks. Evolution doesn't proceed evenly, witness human sinuses that still drain forward not down (if you stayed on your hands and knees, there would be no sinus problems) and the whole lower-back thing hasn't been worked out yet... though the next "big hit mutation" may be either a digestive tract that can subsist entirely on synthetic foods, or a brain that can exist on specious nonsense only. Break out the neck bolts and battery clamps kids, opporknockity tunes....
