Hipshot w/piezo saddles on Aco/Ele?

So I have a Washburn Ab40sh. It’s an electric acoustic but it’s solid and has the feel of an electric hollow body w/ 24 frets. Plays great. I hate setting it up with the individual/single bridges and I’ve been looking at graph tech for an electronics upgrade. Do you think a hipshot Bridge w/ piezo loaded saddles would get too much crosstalk? It will fit but I’m not sure if it should fit.

 

I assume you mean a wooden block under the current bridge pieces where the screws mounting the bridge sink into and the wires pass through. There is.

The original bridge pieces (4seperate/individual) are flat on the bottom but they sit flush against the top where
They’re mounted.

Which leaves me wondering why they wouldn’t have put hipshot style on there to begin with. I don’t know if you’ve used them but, the single individual bridge pieces require you to take the string back off once you’ve set the intonation/action to lock it back down. So you have to be extremely careful not to bump it (or sneeze) while you have the string off. I am remarkably unimpressed with that hardware. Lol. Thanks for the insights! I think that may have made up my mind to pull the trigger on a real bridge.

 

I just replaced the originals with ones that allow me to do that. The ones that come with it the locking screw is inaccessible and it’s maddening.

 

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Wow it’s been a while since I looked at this thread. So, I replaced the pickups with Graphtechs and ended up having one bad one in the bunch. Graph tech is awesome though and they sent me a whole new set free of charge. I got them in and it everything worked which is a miracle considering they must be like 36guage(?) wires. I also added an orange drop cap to darken the tone a little. Then several months later I started getting a radio station through the bass. I assumed it was my lack of experience soldering anything smaller than 22 gauge wire. I took it to a tech this time and turned out to be Washburn components again. We narrowed it down to the circuit board. That’s when I called grape tech and got the preamp and midi interface delivered. I got a little over his head and I ended up taking it to a luthier, tech, guitarist, and cool mf Wendell Walker owner of J Nunis Custom Guitars here in Atlanta. We talked and poked and prodded the bass for about an hour and he took every complaint and desire I had about what I wanted a bass to be and made notes. From functionality of knobs to grinding screws as to not bleed, to the tone, voltage and setup. It may need two 9v batteries. I also play drums and I e been playing with kick and Hat when I practice bass for a few years now. With the midi output I’ll be able to play a full kit (and pretty much anything else) on my strings. He still has it and it should be ready soon. I can’t wait to see hear and feel what he’s done with it.

 

Oh sorry to answer your question though. There are different models of it. There’s one I guess Stu Hamm actually has in his collection and plays. I really don’t know too much about them tbh. I had been waiting for a 24 fret hollow body to exist and when I saw this one I pulled the trigger immediately. After being ghosted by Washburn after reaching out several times i figured it best to go a different route. The bass feels great but the electronics seem a little fragile. Maybe that’s the upgrade is with the price difference.