While upgrading the bridge is the best option and it will make the guitar play a lot better, there is a way to get rid of the rattle. It might not be exactly "good practice", but it has worked for me in a pinch.
Grab a flat bladed screwdriver or something similar and kink the retainer wire in between the screws. Like this
Start with the saddles that are loose and work out from there. Try not to go too hard though.
'As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.'
Thanks guys, turned bridge around last light and seems to have stopped the rattles, re wired a few joints and was still working this morning
Had a jamb this arvo with Skillzys LP lefty, both guitars sounded great, shame about our playing though. We used a mates 100w peavey stack and my 40w marshall interesting that the 40w marshall had heaps more punch and grunt, the other thing was the amount of feed back when i pluged into the peavey i got hardley any from the marshall
Hard to beat a pommie made guitar amp for tone.
Never been a fan of Peavey guitar amps however did like the sound of their TKO & TNT Bass Amps from mid 80's.
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# 7 - ES-1 Runner-up GOTM Aug 2018https://goo.gl/T9BEY8
Thanks waz, for a little amp its got some punch never had it above 1/3 vol, over powers the drum kit any moreOriginally Posted by wazkelly
It's been a month or two since i finished, the guitar playes and sounds awesome. had a week of work and spent it in the maldives surfing. Now i need a project to keep me occupied and take the mind of work, i was originaly thinking an RC-1, but saw something similar to an ES-2V being used at a pub the other day and it looked sweet, so im a bit unsure of wich way to go.
haha Barnsey you might have to order both kits if you can't decide !
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While upgrading the bridge is the best option and it will make the guitar play a lot better, there is a way to get rid of the rattle. It might not be exactly "good practice", but it has worked for me in a pinch.
Grab a flat bladed screwdriver or something similar and kink the retainer wire in between the screws. Like this
Start with the saddles that are loose and work out from there. Try not to go too hard though.
I used to do the same thing with the bridge on an Epiphone SG that I used to own before moving to Darwin in 2000, if you loose the wire retainer clip you can easily make a new one from an old unwound G-String, the saddles on the Nashville bridge on my LP studio guitar are a bit loose too, I managed to tighten them up a bit by bending the saddle screw retainer clips but they still move forwards and back, later on this year I'm going to go all-out and replace the existing bridge with one of those Chrome Babicz ones, haven't tried them before so it'll be interesting to see what results I get.
Ha ha wokka if i had 2 turn up id end up divorced shes cranky enough i want to do another
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