Steinberger-style Pivot Plate?

[slamzilla]

I may be interested in one of these pivot plates. Just ordered a Spirit but will see how it fits once it arrives.
These look great MPU!

 

[MPU]

I may be interested in one of these pivot plates. Just ordered a Spirit but will see how it fits once it arrives.
These look great MPU!

PM me, I have four plates available.

 

[Dean Steele]

I am mid-build in a custom-body/bolt-neck Steinberger build. A proper pivot plate would be perfect. How many ducats will You require to perform this Miracle? Dean

 

[MPU]

PM me for price.

 

[bshaw]

Old thread, but am definitely interested and have sent a PM, thank you!

 

[QbanThunder]

I built a pivot for my Spirit XT, a couple months ago. What a great improvement in comfort and balance. The pivot was always one of the features that I thought was so cool in the original Steinberger designs.
I built mine from 1/4" aluminum a thrust bearing and some commonly available hardware and strap buttons. I have about $20 in materials into it. I'm a pretty good woodworker, but don't have a lot of experience with metal working. The aluminum is soft enough that I could use a lot of woodworking tools (power and hand tools). I spent a lot of time researching, designing (engineering) and looking for hardware, as I didn't have a pivot to use as an example.
I thought about offering them for sale, but there is a lot of time involved! I learned that template shaping, filing and sanding aluminum isn't hard, but takes a lot of time when you don't have metal working tools.
Like Bruce said, it might be worth it for someone to run a batch of 5-10, especially if you have access to computer aided cutters and boring equipment. Getting the bends right was a little tricky without some type of a brake. I had to use a bench vice and a big long pipe clamp as a lever to make the bends.
I have templates and material lists, and resources if anyone is interested.
As a tip... I used a big ass suction cup, hung from a rough plywood template, on the back of my bass to find the pivot point. I found that my center of balance was slightly north of the neck line which countered the tendency for the bass to tip forward.
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How did you attach the strap buttons?
With the thrust bearing, can it remain stationary?

 

[QbanThunder]

I built a pivot for my Spirit XT, a couple months ago. What a great improvement in comfort and balance. The pivot was always one of the features that I thought was so cool in the original Steinberger designs.
I built mine from 1/4" aluminum a thrust bearing and some commonly available hardware and strap buttons. I have about $20 in materials into it. I'm a pretty good woodworker, but don't have a lot of experience with metal working. The aluminum is soft enough that I could use a lot of woodworking tools (power and hand tools). I spent a lot of time researching, designing (engineering) and looking for hardware, as I didn't have a pivot to use as an example.
I thought about offering them for sale, but there is a lot of time involved! I learned that template shaping, filing and sanding aluminum isn't hard, but takes a lot of time when you don't have metal working tools.
Like Bruce said, it might be worth it for someone to run a batch of 5-10, especially if you have access to computer aided cutters and boring equipment. Getting the bends right was a little tricky without some type of a brake. I had to use a bench vice and a big long pipe clamp as a lever to make the bends.
I have templates and material lists, and resources if anyone is interested.
As a tip... I used a big ass suction cup, hung from a rough plywood template, on the back of my bass to find the pivot point. I found that my center of balance was slightly north of the neck line which countered the tendency for the bass to tip forward.
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Awesome Job!
How much would you charge for a template tracing?

 

[Beej]

A few weeks ago I purchased an 80's Steinberger copy from Japan called a "Spaceburger" (Ishibashi Music's in house brand - Mavis) - one of the things that attracted me to it over the Spirit or Hohner variants was it had a Pivot Plate. When it arrived I was more than happy with it. Especially the ergonomic advantages the Pivot Plate provided. Looks like a bit of a MacGyver job.

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SpaceBerger... I absolutely love it. Although you know I wish it was SpaceBurger

 

[BergerXL25]

I've just received one of MPUs reproduction pivot plates.

Wow, perfect!

 

[BRUNO Nunes]

Hello, I'm trying to make a pivot plate on the 3D printing machine. Does anyone have an STL file to help me? Because it has a lot of curvature details.