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[Logrinn]

... Oddly enough, the guitar will seem to learn to tune itself  :laughing7:

It's a fact! I have had several guitars that seemed impossible to tune in the beginning but after some time worked perfectly. :icon_scratch:

 

[mayfly]

... Oddly enough, the guitar will seem to learn to tune itself  :laughing7:

It's a fact! I have had several guitars that seemed impossible to tune in the beginning but after some time worked perfectly. :icon_scratch:

I have some guitars that play in tune just fine but then discover are horribly out of tune when I hook up a tuner! 

 

[bobsessed]

... Oddly enough, the guitar will seem to learn to tune itself  :laughing7:

It's a fact! I have had several guitars that seemed impossible to tune in the beginning but after some time worked perfectly. :icon_scratch:

I have some guitars that play in tune just fine but then discover are horribly out of tune when I hook up a tuner! 

                                            Wow....I thought I was the only person that ever happened to ....2 US Hamers of mine act just that way!                                                                                                                                       

 

[Cagey]

Yeah, a good tuner can drive you nuts.

 

[stratamania]

Yes, a good ear can sometimes challenge you. At times I wonder if piano might have been better for me.

Back to the original issue. All the photos show the bridge lined up with the rout for the humbucker. Is it also lined up with the mounting holes?

 

[Logrinn]

At times I wonder if piano might have been better for me.

Don't open that can of worms. A piano is purposefully tuned "out-of-tune" (stretch tuning). My ex is a piano technichian and she tried to explain it to me several times. I got to see her tuning program for her pocket computer (later iPhone, I think) that cost a fortune and it looks nothing like a guitar tuner.

 

[Cagey]

Can of worms, indeed. I never heard of "stretched tuning", so I looked it up. Turns out vibrating strings are squirrelly little rascals. No wonder tuning stringed instruments is such a pain in the shorts.

 

[Logrinn]

... Turns out vibrating strings are squirrelly little rascals. No wonder tuning stringed instruments is such a pain in the shorts.

Exactly. We should be paid having to deal with them things every day ...  :icon_biggrin:

 

[bobsessed]

Yes, a good ear can sometimes challenge you. At times I wonder if piano might have been better for me.

Back to the original issue. All the photos show the bridge lined up with the rout for the humbucker. Is it also lined up with the mounting holes?

      The mounting holes in the bridge are at the very rear of the unit, (obviously proprietary), and completely different from those in the body. With the pickup rout lined up, the string-thru holes are also lined up, and new holes will be needed to screw it  down.

 

[stratamania]

Odd..., have you tried contacting Babicz to ask what bridge mount if any the BFG is supposed to retrofit ?

 

[stratamania]

At times I wonder if piano might have been better for me.

Don't open that can of worms. A piano is purposefully tuned "out-of-tune" (stretch tuning). My ex is a piano technichian and she tried to explain it to me several times. I got to see her tuning program for her pocket computer (later iPhone, I think) that cost a fortune and it looks nothing like a guitar tuner.

Well, I started piano at five, and my father was an accomplished pianist and organist. I can hear when those things are out of tune too.  But a well-tuned piano is quite listenable.  And you don't normally tune them yourself.

I didn't stick with the piano, but I can manage keyboards. I might take it up again at some point.

 

[bobsessed]

Odd indeed...Customer service at Babicz seems to consist of a few people answering emails, who aren't very knowledgeable about the product. The last I heard before I gave up was "it fits a Telecaster". And they're right.....it does....if you're patient enough to figure it out by yourself :icon_smile:. Kind of like Home Depot; "You can do it, We can watch". I think Babicz intended that folks would ask their guitar tech (I don't employ one) to install these, and maybe average Joe like me wouldn't attempt it alone :dontknow:

 

[Cagey]

I've only bought one of their bridges, and while I'm quite pleased with it, I was disappointed to see a big "Made in Taiwan" sticker on the thing when it got here. Not that I mind it was made there, but to me if a company is going to give away the jobs and tax revenue that benefit this country as a whole, then they should at least give back to the consumer in the form of lower prices. Why are they charging so much for parts that are made by what is essentially slave labor?

Which speaks to perhaps why support is less than ideal. If WangChungBang is doing your manufacturing in some Pacific rim sweatshop and some cloud computer is handling the sales end and UPS is handling shipping, you can basically run the whole business off a laptop and a remotely hosted website. Don't even need an office, per se. Sit on the beach and enjoy umbrella drinks while the retirement fund grows like an unsupervised rabbit farm.

 

[bobsessed]

Exactly, Cagey, well said.

 

[stratamania]

Looks like bobsessed you will have to do it...

 

[bobsessed]

Looks like bobsessed you will have to do it...

  And I shall......I have a plan........

 

[stratamania]

Looks like bobsessed you will have to do it...

  And I shall......I have a plan........

A cunning plan perhaps ?

 

[bobsessed]

Asimple, (maybe cunning) plan. I don't like that the bridge, when aligned with the string-thru holes and HB rout, will give me just enough, maybe enough forward travel.  :sign13: I decided to enlarge the string-thru holes just enough toward the neck (1/8") to move the bridge by that much. This way, the humbucker will be happy, and I'll have enough forward travel to make me happy. There will be plenty of rearward travel, in fact about 1/2". I enlarged the holes with a Dremel tool and a small burr. The slots aint real purty, but they don't really have to be, being covered by the bridge 

 

[Cagey]

Remember you have to feed those strings from the back of the guitar, so if the holes don't line up on top, you're unlikely to get the string through the bridge holes.

 

[bobsessed]

Don't know if the pic shows it very well, but yes, I "routed" those holes open at an angle to the original, if that makes sense, so as to allow the strings to come through. The Babicz bridge also has holes at the back of it so you can "top mount" the stings if you like. They say that's the way the Reverend Willy G. does it.....a haw haw haw haw:glasses10: