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Re: replacing the bridge w/ American parts -- I hate to always be the guy saying this but - my experience is that American bridges and tailpieces are too wide for these Japanese guitars. The J-guitar that I put an American bridge on ended up with the E strings as wide as the neck itself.
-Scott
Statistics: Posted by cheepaxes — Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:36 pm
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Those tailpiece covers are often called "ashtrays", might be a helpful search term on the 'nets. Best of luck.
Statistics: Posted by mcphoto — Fri Apr 10, 2009 7:27 am
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Found what's likely the correct style of tailpiece cover in my parts but it has a notch for a whammy bar. At least I have an idea of what I'm looking for.
Statistics: Posted by theehman — Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:18 am
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If you're not interested in a perfect restoration, my guess is any Gibson style bridge & tailpiece combo should work.
That's a groovy looking guitar though - if it were mine, I'd get the surface-mount whammy from GFS and a gibson style roller-saddle bridge from the same website. Cost you about $50 total, and that repro whammy would look pretty kickin' with the chrome cover plate. You'd have to drill some bigger holes for the Gibson-style bridge pins I imagine.
Link to the tremolo is thus:
http://store.guitarfetish.com/vistsumowhba.html
You'll also see the "bridges" link.
You do see those japanese-style bridges often on eBay; curious to know how well that thing plays when it's strung. best of luck - MC
Statistics: Posted by mcphoto — Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:43 pm
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Statistics: Posted by theehman — Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:52 am
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