$300 bridge? Craigslist find

[jonnymac101881]

Found this while I'm sitting here snowed in.

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/msg/1594361895.html

Imagine how quickly those saddles would wear! Also it would pretty much kill any sustain.

[TheBasicBassist]

Maybe that's the point?
For like an upright kind of tone, w/ flats of course.

That'd be my only guess f it's practical function.

[thunderbolt]

Watch what you say, pilgrim. I'm pretty sure another TB'er makes those. I read his thread about them this morning.

[jonnymac101881]

I've just never seen anything like it before. Seems like it would be more of a showpiece than something functional.

[nortonrider]

It's gotta be better than a $200. bridge, right?

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Can't fault the guy for testing the market tho

[aproud1]

Isn't it cocobolo? Or is he using some special variety of wood?

Looks pretty nice just not very practical.

[jonnymac101881]

Originally Posted by aproud1

Looks pretty nice just not very practical.

My thoughts exactly. Maybe I'm just letting my engineering degree get in the way of my thinking

[bongomania]

Originally Posted by aproud1

Isn't it cocobolo?

Yeah, I think he must have been drinking a popular carbonated beverage when he typed up the ad.

I don't really see how it could be assumed that it would kill sustain--after all does the wood in the rest of your bass kill the sustain?

[jonnymac101881]

I just don't think it would transfer the vibration to the body as well as a metal bridge would. Think of it this way. A brass bridge usually yields more sustain than one of the same design in aluminum. Now take that same design and make it out of wood.

[Philbiker]

I LOVE the concept!!!!! Throw some piezo saddles on there with some nylon tapewound strings and imagine the acoustic tone that thing would be capable of - and without the intonation disaster that so many acoustic bass guitars have.

[walker rosewood]

Haha, these two threads are right next to each other.

Handmade Coca-Bola Bass Bridge

[bongomania]

Originally Posted by jonnymac101881

Think of it this way. A brass bridge usually yields more sustain than one of the same design in aluminum.

See, I don't buy that at all. And I think it's been pretty solidly disproven, and also shown by the fact that hardly any high-end bass uses solid brass bridges anymore. That was just a fad from the '70s and '80s.

[millsbass5]

Love the looks.

[ZYDesign]

Thanks for the interest everyone.

[aproud1]

Originally Posted by jonnymac101881

My thoughts exactly. Maybe I'm just letting my engineering degree get in the way of my thinking

Logic can be confusing at times.

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by jonnymac101881

Think of it this way. A brass bridge usually yields more sustain than one of the same design in aluminum. Now take that same design and make it out of wood.

Right, okay... and?

What is it about about brass that you think "yields more sustain" than aluminum? (I'm not asking whether or not it does, I'm asking what property it posseses that would cause it to.) and what is it about wood that makes you think it has more in common with that property of aluminum rather than that property of brass? Density? Maleability? Anisotropic structure? I dunno, that's why I'm asking.

[Papazita]

Did the craigslist ad change since this topic opened?
"$300 bridge?"
The cl ad says $175.

[Papazita]

A wooden bridge would never work on a bass!



Silly F Bass, wood bridges are for acoustics!

[aproud1]

Originally Posted by Papazita

A wooden bridge would never work on a bass!



Silly F Bass, wood bridges are for acoustics!

Obviously whoever built that bass is clueless.