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Has anyone ever seen a trem system on a tele yet one that preserved the original tele pickups?

I am looking for hardware like this and not having much luck.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

how bout this one Imade...

Bigbsy!!!

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

Is that just the standard bigsby? Do you have a close up shot of that bridge trem assembly.

I think that would work... thanks.

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

it is one that is made for flattops instead of a archtop.

here is a close up...

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

the partsyou ned to do it are:

the trem: TP_3643-001

The bridge (mustang bridge):SB_0223-010

The bridge plate for std. Tele style pickups: BP_0051-010

These are from Allparts.

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

Awesome... Thanks... This is exactly what I need.

I presume it uses the standard tele body routes?

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Brock Poling
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.polingguitars.com

[QUOTE=Brock Poling]
Awesome... Thanks... This is exactly what I need.

I presume it uses the standard tele body routes?

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Yep. the trem uses no routs (it just scrwes to the top), but the bridge you have to drillpost holesfor it, but all the "normal" holes are covered by the bridge plate. Just don'tforget and drill through the body for the strings! (don't ask me how I know)

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

John,

Is that particular Bigsby a two-way tremelo. Does it increase the pitch when you pull upwards on the arm as well as decrease pitch when the arm is pushed down toward the body? If so, and more importantly, does it take about the same amount of pressure for each direction of pull to effect the same amount of change to the pitch? Hopefully that made sense. Thanks,

Skip

[QUOTE=Skip Beach] Is that particular Bigsby a two-way tremelo.[/QUOTE]

The Bigsby has an up and down action, definitely not as drastic as even a
strat tremolo, but it has a beautiful sound and "wiggle" and gives that
amazing liquid tone. You get maybe 1 tone on the G string and that's
pushing it toward getting out-of-tune… They're hard to keep in tune, a
perfect nut fit for each string is required and lubrification on the nut and
tremolo itself.

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Laurent Brondel
West Paris, Maine - USA
http://www.laurentbrondel.com/

Hi Skip,

There is another way to do use a Bigsby on a Tele.

If you have a 3 saddle bridge, cut out the back of the bridge. You can see what I mean on my Web Page. Scroll down and click on the Blue Guitar. Down at the bottom of the page I describe the process, with some photo's.

Take care,

Guitar Ed

John that guitar is so gorgeous! I used to use an old '63 Tele in my time in an awesome Prog rock band (OK we weren't actually all that good, but heh! we can't all be Pink Floyd)

That guitar of yours has made me go all nostalgic I'm very tempted!

Colin

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Hi Brock, Guitar Ed's solution is pretty amazing. My only thoughts about using the suggested Mustang saddles is that they are pre-radiused with no individual height adjustment.This could be problematic if you are using a flatter 10-12" radius on your fretboard. Jazzmaster saddles while not my favorite things in the world will be height adjustable to match any radius.As long as you have decent downward pressure going across them they should behave.
Evan

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[QUOTE=Evan Gluck] Hi Brock, Guitar Ed's solution is pretty amazing. My only thoughts about using the suggested Mustang saddles is that they are pre-radiused with no individual height adjustment.This could be problematic if you are using a flatter 10-12" radius on your fretboard. Jazzmaster saddles while not my favorite things in the world will be height adjustable to match any radius.As long as you have decent downward pressure going across them they should behave.
Evan[/QUOTE]

Actually it is not much of a problem at all. Warmoth makes a modified mustang bridge that matches a newer 10-12 radius. But the Jazzmaster bridge is a good solution as well.

http://www.warmoth.com/hardware/bridges/bridges.cfm?fuseacti on=mustang_modifiedJohn Mayes38690.7585416667

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John Mayes
http://www.mayesluthier.com

Cool John, that is why I joined this forum. The Warmouth tip is a good thing for me to know.

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