Thinking of Removing the Bigsby....

gball said:
Noooooo!!!! What did that poor SG ever do to you to make you want to treat it like that? Seriously, step back from the Bigsby black hole and remember to love your guitars, not make heinous wiggle-bar slaves of them.
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smitty_p said:
Well...the poor SG was given its Bigsby-ish hardware by none other than the Gibson Corporation in 1974!

So the damage was done forty-six years ago.

The SG came that way with the horseshoe-style, Gibson-stamped device. I’m just trying to give it a bit of an upgrade.
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I will say, though...had my ‘74 not already come with a Bigsby-style object on it, I wouldn’t be adding one!

Then, again...I suppose I could think about making an adapter plate that would let me use a stop tail.

Then, I’d put the harmonica bridge back on...

Hmmm...
 
smitty_p said:
I will say, though...had my ‘74 not already come with a Bigsby-style object on it, I wouldn’t be adding one!

Then, again...I suppose I could think about making an adapter plate that would let me use a stop tail.

Then, I’d put the harmonica bridge back on...

Hmmm...
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Smitty, this adapter plate thingy, I was trying to think up ways to FIX a flaw with something akin to an adapter plate for a misaligned pickup trim ring so as to be able to still use the holes in the body. I pretty much determined the holes for the trim ring were drilled off by maybe 3/32 which puts the neck pickup out of alignment with the neck/strings on a certain guitarof mine that you have given a test drive. My other thought was to ask a former member here if he would possibly be able to fab up a pair of wider edged trim rings on his 3d printer, that I could then drill properly to shift the pickup sideways enough to be aligned properly.
 
whats not aligned properly?

as the strings vibrate --- (assuming these are 9 gauge-- because if they are 10s this is all crap) they rotate when plucked so is the 3/32 "static" or plucked?
IS the magnetic frequency capable of compensating-- or even BENEFITING form the 3/32 offset ---in ESSENCE creating a unique "mojo" that no guitar that is is PRECISELY lined up can achieve????????---
If a tree falls in the forest at the speed of light will an owl stinker ?
 
eSGEe said:
whats not aligned properly?

as the strings vibrate --- (assuming these are 9 gauge-- because if they are 10s this is all crap) they rotate when plucked so is the 3/32 "static" or plucked?
IS the magnetic frequency capable of compensating-- or even BENEFITING form the 3/32 offset ---in ESSENCE creating a unique "mojo" that no guitar that is is PRECISELY lined up can achieve????????---
If a tree falls in the forest at the speed of light will an owl stinker ?
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It's a secret, adrian. If I told you, I would have to send Smitty down there to rub you out and disinfect all your gear from the junk rubbing, and then high tail it back here with all your Peaveys and EB Bass so we can split the loot.
 
smitty_p said:
Well...the poor SG was given its Bigsby-ish hardware by none other than the Gibson Corporation in 1974!

So the damage was done forty-six years ago.

The SG came that way with the horseshoe-style, Gibson-stamped device. I’m just trying to give it a bit of an upgrade.
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Well, okay...but maybe this is a chance to remove the factory Bigsby and give the guitar some dignity? After all these years his guitar buddies can stop making fun of him for being a sissy?
 
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