Dear friends, i'm in the process to make an adjustable bridge using aluminium adjusters. Given the modest experience i have as a luthier, could anyone help me to find the necessary suggestions?
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Double Bass An adjustable bridge
- Thread starter MIKMAN
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Buy the Chuck Traeger book. Try googling "fitting bridge adjusters", some stuff comes up.
- Jul 19, 2000
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We have a sheet for fitting a bridge, but we don't have a sheet for installing adjusters. However, the instructions for the Fishman Full Circle pickup have some nice tips for installation into a fixed bridge. You can probably find them online.
How difficult is this procedure in the grand scheme? (Just curious) The reason I ask is that I've had it done a few different times by several different people, and the only ones that really worked smoothly and well are the ones on my current bass, on which Arnold did the job.
"How difficult is this procedure in the grand scheme? (Just curious) The reason I ask is that I've had it done a few different times by several different people, and the only ones that really worked smoothly and well are the ones on my current bass, on which Arnold did the job."
Looks to me like you answered your own question.
Looks to me like you answered your own question.
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It's something I probably wouldn't attempt without a drill press. The holes need to be 100% perpendicular to the bass table, and 100% parallel to each other, for fitment and stability. It's a pretty exacting job, not for the occasional handyman, IMHO.
Hi - I wanted to check we are talking about the same thing here:-
I saw a bass recently that had had the bridge sawn in half horizontally, some wood planed off at the cut and then two machine screw rods set into the bottom of the bridge, thumbwheels fitted, then the top of the bridge drilled so the top of the screwed rods were a sliding fit in the top half of the bridge.
The bridge is then adjustable for height so the action can be "fine tuned".
Is this what you are talking about?
Do you know where I can get the thumbwheels and screwed rods?
Regards,
Geoff
I saw a bass recently that had had the bridge sawn in half horizontally, some wood planed off at the cut and then two machine screw rods set into the bottom of the bridge, thumbwheels fitted, then the top of the bridge drilled so the top of the screwed rods were a sliding fit in the top half of the bridge.
The bridge is then adjustable for height so the action can be "fine tuned".
Is this what you are talking about?
Do you know where I can get the thumbwheels and screwed rods?
Regards,
Geoff
They are called bridge adjusters, and you can purchase nice aluminum ones from Bob Gollihur. They came on my nice quartered maple adjustable bridge, bought from from Bob, and they work very well and are easy to grip and turn.
Bob Gollihur sells em, I believe Upton bass does too. Ken Smith might also sell them...but I'm not sure
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Yes, we're talking about essentially the same thing. The ones we're familiar with are one piece; the wheel and post are of the same piece of aluminum, and one side of the post is threaded and the other isn't. I've not seen two-piece ones, but I imagine they're out there.
