I offer luthier services and I have a regular, always wanting some form of modification. Usually i can do them, but this one sounds crazy.
On a squier strat body, he wants to replace the current bridge with a jazzmaster style, tremolo and all.
Routing the spring cavity on the front sounds straight forward but my issue is with the actual bridge- it would need to be placed right where a hole is now. I could glue a block of wood in there, but I'd still be worried about the strength of it. I believe the strings would be pushing down on the bridge, through the body and threatening to push that block of wood out of the back as it has no support from the back.
To solve this, I thought of extending the back routing further past the bridge and construct a T shape of wood to be glued in, the top of the T giving the bridge block more support.
Thoughts? Advice? At the moment, I'm leaning away from this mod.
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