Thanks Andrew! I love itOriginally Posted by andrewdosborne
Thanks Andrew! I love it
that finish looks excellent shazz, can't wait to see it with all the hardware,
and speaking as a lover of Japan, i have to say i love your logo, been to japan a couple of times and plan to keep going
amazing place, amazing people,
and cds/vinyl/guitars are also dirt cheap, you'll both love it
Thanks John! I reckon it will look so mean with the hardware! We're so excited to go there! We're planning a 28 day trip in 2017that finish looks excellent shazz, can't wait to see it with all the hardware,
and speaking as a lover of Japan, i have to say i love your logo, been to japan a couple of times and plan to keep going
amazing place, amazing people,
and cds/vinyl/guitars are also dirt cheap, you'll both love it
Will def be looking at the music scene too!
Last edited by ShazzRandom; 25-11-2015 at 07:16 PM.
So I just did another dry fit, and my goodness am I excited!! It looks flipping awesome!!! (If I do say so myself!!)
I have 1 question though, this is how my 'bigsby' style bridge came, does this look right? To me it seems to be sitting too high... And when I push the trem bar down the spring clicks (did not do this whilst it was sitting like this, I squeezed it in my hands).
I would love to buy, but can't currently afford a genuine Bigsby so I want this to work
Also does anyone know where I can get a genuine silver Gretsch pick guard bracket? I can only seem to find the gold as a 'spare part' the Gretsch one has a slightly different shape so the pick guard sits up differently then with the current bracket that came with my kit.
Hi Shazz, mock build looks excellent. I think you have the neck pup surround in the bridge cavity, try swapping them and the bridge height should look about the right height. I think once strings are on the wammy bar should come down but of the 50 odd kits I've built I've never had a Bigsby on one. The other GR builders can probably help you with the pickguard or if you buy the material have a crack at cutting your own
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The Bigsby will settle down once under string tension so don't worry about any weird clicks it makes now.
There is always a workaround for glitches, mistakes and other Guitar building gremlins.....
Ok awesome!! Thanks DB
Hey Wokka, I did have them the wrong way around! I realised afterwards doh!!
Hopefully when I actually fix hem they're in right
It's not the pick guard it's self it's just the silver bracket that fixes it to the body. The Gretsch one has a bend in it where as the kit one is flat.
I hope the bar comes down, it just seems to be really high and not sitting on the spring right. I'll try have a look through the forum and see
Hey Wokka, I did have them the wrong way around! I realised afterwards doh!!
Hopefully when I actually fix hem they're in right
It's not the pick guard it's self it's just the silver bracket that fixes it to the body. The Gretsch one has a bend in it where as the kit one is flat.
I hope the bar comes down, it just seems to be really high and not sitting on the spring right. I'll try have a look through the forum and see
The reason why the trem arm is like that is because there's no string tension acting on the system, incidentally, guitars with those Bigsby Trems fitted tended to have rather thick gauge strings, like say 52s, not only that, the G-string would be a wound type rather than the plain type as found on Fender Strats, you'll probably find that once the guitar is tuned to pitch the trem-arm will sit closer to the body of the guitar.
Thanks Doc! I'll continue with this as it seems it will all be ok
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