The new Schaller "Hannes" bridge.....Awesome stuff here!

[RexTheDog]

Ive spoken to Brian Eckles from Warmoth via email about this and this is what he had to say:

"We evaluated it, it is nothing really special, made out of very lightweight material, the saddles have a potential to fall out of turned upside down when unstrung, it shows no advantage over other similar bridges (except maybe cosmetic) and it is difficult to rout for. We gave it a fair chance, and just see no advantage to it all things considered"

 

[OzziePete]

In theory I could achieve this exact effect by cutting my hardtail callaham strat bridge into six pieces and mounting them using individual screws through holes I cut through the bridge plate. If I did that, does anyone think my tone would improve, and why? All of the strings' vibrations transferring through the bridge "end up" "muddled together" in the body anyhow, so why keep those vibrations "separate" at the bridge?
My guess is the only thing you'd notice is a loss of sustain and maybe some amount of microphonics as the little mini bridge plates vibrated all tone away. Any engineer types want to take a stab?

On this: yes, we could take a typical Tele bridge assembly and do away with most of the plate underneath the saddles, and then use very small wood screws to anchor direct to the body wood instead of suing the allen head grub screws either side of each saddle. Cumbersome.

The Hannes looks very classy and would go very well OEM on some PRS lookalike/VIP style guitar for sure. The gold looks yummy.

But Wyliee's comments about the loose saddles kinda puts the Hannes bridge back into the same category as the loose TOM bridges of old. For the working player, that's a worry if strings get broken as he mentioned.

 

[OzziePete]

Not at all!  But hearing from an actual user has it's place as well.

Well........ I doubt I could find one around here in Australia Guitlouie and I don't have a guitar handy to a/b test it on. In that case,  I have to rely upon people who have it installed (like above) and people like Wyliee who looked at it from Warmoth's angle and the working players' angle. I think it looks good and it certainly wouldn't deter me from buying a guitar with one fitted OEM - in fact - it would enhance the looks of the guitar rather than some which look 'slapped' on.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

In theory I could achieve this exact effect by cutting my hardtail callaham strat bridge into six pieces and mounting them using individual screws through holes I cut through the bridge plate.

I say no, and this bridge claims that and doesn't do that.  It has a metal piece underneath the bridge that mounts to the body and fits into a routed recess that all of the saddles screw to anyway.

 

[djf67]

I say no, and this bridge claims that and doesn't do that.  It has a metal piece underneath the bridge that mounts to the body and fits into a routed recess that all of the saddles screw to anyway.

You must have fitted a different one to the one I fitted, then.  :dontknow:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I didn't fit one, I just saw the pic and list of hardware.