No pickups fitted yet. Waiting for the scratch plate to come back from being chromed and due to the fitting of an original ric bridge the original jazz pickup wont work in the bridge position so have a srb-1b seymore duncan coming. Will probably mean a little of extra routing though doh.
Yeah dude, string spacing. That's why I balked at getting the same bridge. Looks damn good though. A chrome pickguard too! Sounds awesome.
'As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.'
Yeah unfortunately I didn't see your post about string spacing until after routing for the new bridge to fit and being my first build didn't check before/<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from pablopepper on July 22, 2014, 12:16
Yeah dude, string spacing. That's why I balked at getting the same bridge. Looks damn good though. A chrome pickguard too! Sounds awesome.
On the up side though I am now using the matched set of seymore duncans and do get the advantage of the mute on the bridge so not all a loss.
Ok nothing is fixed yet just sat in situ but just had to share this.
Oh, WOW! That looks fantastic!
Sorry dude, the spacing thing threw me for a while, I wasn't sure if it would make that much difference so I didn't mention it before. To be honest, I only thought about the spacing over the pickup after I got my bridge and was laying it all out.
'As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.'
that looks amazing Alan, what is the pickguard and truss rod cover made of if its chrome plated ?
So is the new bridge you got slightly wider than the supplied bridge ?
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
No need to be sorry for anything mate. Just a rookie mistake on my part but it all worked out in the long run as it's closer to an original now and I have a spare jazz bridge pickup for a future project./<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from pablopepper on July 22, 2014, 14:55
Oh, WOW! That looks fantastic!
Sorry dude, the spacing thing threw me for a while, I wasn't sure if it would make that much difference so I didn't mention it before. To be honest, I only thought about the spacing over the pickup after I got my bridge and was laying it all out.
Both are 1.2mm brass, water jet cut, hand finished, then chromed. And no the bridge is about the same width but has narrower string spacing. Because of the adjustable string dampener it needed to routed underneath the front to fit./<\\/p>[]<\\/p>/Quote from wokkaboy on July 22, 2014, 15:11
that looks amazing Alan, what is the pickguard and truss rod cover made of if its chrome plated ?
So is the new bridge you got slightly wider than the supplied bridge ?
very cool, who does the water jet cutting and chrome plating ? Very nice look indeed.
Glad the bridge worked out as it looks very sexy
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
The bridge did require some adjustment of the neck though. Had to shim it 1.5mm forward and just under 1mm up to get more angle otherwise the string hight would have been unplayable. Good learning point for me to next time clamp the neck in place and check the string hight before adding glue lol. Made for messy fun but we got there eventually.
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