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yeah, i realized that it was the 'before' pic after i posted it, but you should check it's a lignment anyway.
BTW, great job on sticking with it and solving its problem.
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string - pup misallignment
- Thread starter stamos
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yeah, i realized that it was the 'before' pic after i posted it, but you should check it's a lignment anyway.
BTW, great job on sticking with it and solving its problem.
The poles are set where they are, short of trying to hammer them higher from the back (though I don't know if this is possible with the MM pickup design and even if it is I don't recommend it for fear of damaging the pickup).
Bravo! Without three dimensions it's difficult to tell what's what! Good job Stamos. I wonder if you would like to wrap this up with a few pics of that beautiful bass?
Great to see that this isse was solved by stamos himself 
Regarding the bridge design and the break angle of the strings: Leo's original design of the StingRay bridge was not like that. The original was a string through body design and the strings were winding like snakes over the saddle around the spring screw into the holes. You can see pictures of that on the aforementioned musicmanbass.org website. The design for the original Sabre bridge, which became the base concept for the later G&L bridges, was a top loader bridge that introduced this break angle. I guess that since this seemed to work well enough, and milling for a top load bridge is much cheaper than for a string through body design, the the design for the original StingRay brige was altered to the one shown above somewhere around 1980.
Regarding the bridge design and the break angle of the strings: Leo's original design of the StingRay bridge was not like that. The original was a string through body design and the strings were winding like snakes over the saddle around the spring screw into the holes. You can see pictures of that on the aforementioned musicmanbass.org website. The design for the original Sabre bridge, which became the base concept for the later G&L bridges, was a top loader bridge that introduced this break angle. I guess that since this seemed to work well enough, and milling for a top load bridge is much cheaper than for a string through body design, the the design for the original StingRay brige was altered to the one shown above somewhere around 1980.
