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Awstin
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 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:46 pm Post subject: xii bridge out of a toronado bridge? |
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This may be a plausible solution to building your own xii bridge while keeping it looking similar to an xii bridge...
What if you took a toronado bridge and removed the saddles? That would leave you six holes out the back for 6 strings plus you have 6 holes for strings with the string through bottom. There's 12 strings. Now all you would have to do is drill two holes in the plate for a 12 string TOM (with rollers would be best) or a 12 string staytrem bridge. This sounds really plausible to me and might look really nice.
See my dilemma is I have a venus xii on the way but I don't know if I wanna take the xii bridge off of that or make up my own xii bridge for a xii build. Opinions?
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Awstin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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Or just make it easy on myself and get a toronado bridge and add xii saddles to it...
http://bit.ly/1etKW87
Hmmmmmmm
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Addam
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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I was vaguely considering a cobble up of Squier Musicmaster and Gotoh 12 string bridges.
Obivously the Squier plate and Gotoh saddles, and extra holes would need drilling.
I prefer the MM baseplate as it's notably thicker than the Toronado item.
But use whatever you have or can get fastest & cheapest, either way you're going to drill 6 extra holes.
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Awstin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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I was also thinking you could use a musicmaster bridge too if you bought two of them and added more grooves to the saddles. (Two because the middle two saddles are different cuts than the rest)
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Addam
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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If you're not bothered about saddle per string you could swap Jazzmaster saddles (with longer screws and springs) on a Toronado base plate.
Easy peasy and jobs a good'un! |
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Awstin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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If you're not bothered about saddle per string you could swap Jazzmaster saddles (with longer screws and springs) on a Toronado base plate.
Easy peasy and jobs a good'un! |
That's a good idea. I never played a jazzmaster bridge though so I can't say I would like it. I might go another way and use a gotoh bridge with the Rhoney surrounding plate.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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I hate seeing the bridges getting pulled off xii's, I once saw someone out these saddles on a jm style xii, with the musicmaster/toronado baseplate...
It looked good, but you need a custom guard as it is smaller than an xii footprint |
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Awstin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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I think I will use the venus bridge. Kevin makes the gotoh 12 string bridge surrounds and they line up exactly to the the xii bridge mounting holes. So it would be a drop in swap.
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