Thinking about fixed bridges...

[Jumble Jumble]

Yeah, don't think for one minute I'm a pseudoscience believer. My main reason for getting the Callaham block was that I was sick of my wobbly trem arm and it promised to fix it. I was genuinely surprised that it made any tone difference. But like I say, I had two AmStd strats that sounded the same before, and different afterwards.

I now hardly play the strat without the Callaham block because it feels dead. Need to fix that ASAP.

I'm not convinced the brass block has made any difference on the FR guitar. How could I be, I've never even heard it with the other block. It just seemed that there was something to it in my prior experience, so I went with it just in case.

 

[Cagey]

Ok, that makes more sense.

 

[swarfrat]

I have one guitar in which half the strings go through the body, and the other half go out the back of the bridge. The ONLY difference between them is that four of the strings that top load are an octave higher than the ones that go through the back.

 

[Jeremiah]

I have one guitar in which half the strings go through the body, and the other half go out the back of the bridge. The ONLY difference between them is that four of the strings that top load are an octave higher than the ones that go through the back.

Gotoh 12-string bridge?

By the way, I have a guitar with a top-loading flatmount hardtail similar to the one in the picture above, and it works fine. As people suspected, it can be a little tricky to thread the strings through, but it's not a big deal.

 

[swarfrat]

Yes - but it's literally the only type of bridge where you can do a literal side by side comparison of through-body, or top loading.