Winter Build off - Mash Up - Get Ready

[GAS_Attack]

I'm sure you can join the Bass VI group, just as long as you guys promise not to try to take over the world......

So, back to this Bass VI thing. I've got everything about my build mapped out (at least in my head) except the bridge.

I don't want to use a standard 6-string bass bridge because I want to keep the narrow guitar-like string spacing of the Bass VI.

The Bass VI uses a floating bridge and tremolo like the Jazzmaster. I can buy one of those (even though I really don't care about tremolo), but will bass-size strings (esp the .084-diameter low E) fit through the holes in the trem part?

I'd really like to use a hardtail Tele bridge, but same problem.

Thoughts?

Maybe I will cross-post this in the Bass VI forum.

 

[Fat Freddy]

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[GeraldMcG]

So, back to this Bass VI thing. I've got everything about my build mapped out (at least in my head) except the bridge.

I don't want to use a standard 6-string bass bridge because I want to keep the narrow guitar-like string spacing of the Bass VI.

The Bass VI uses a floating bridge and tremolo like the Jazzmaster. I can buy one of those (even though I really don't care about tremolo), but will bass-size strings (esp the .084-diameter low E) fit through the holes in the trem part?

I'd really like to use a hardtail Tele bridge, but same problem.

Thoughts?

Maybe I will cross-post this in the Bass VI forum.

Bass VI strings use guitar sized end balls and you can always drill out the Tele bridge if the strings don't fit.

 

[Jebberz]

So, back to this Bass VI thing. I've got everything about my build mapped out (at least in my head) except the bridge.

I don't want to use a standard 6-string bass bridge because I want to keep the narrow guitar-like string spacing of the Bass VI.

The Bass VI uses a floating bridge and tremolo like the Jazzmaster. I can buy one of those (even though I really don't care about tremolo), but will bass-size strings (esp the .084-diameter low E) fit through the holes in the trem part?

I'd really like to use a hardtail Tele bridge, but same problem.

Thoughts?

Maybe I will cross-post this in the Bass VI forum.

I cross answer you... you could use a Bigsby, or even a fixed bridge and it would do the job.

 

[GAS_Attack]

Bass VI strings use guitar sized end balls and you can always drill out the Tele bridge if the strings don't fit.

Trying to avoid drilling out the holes. Seems a big pain with not a lot of room for error in such a small space as the end of a bridge. But I may end up having to do that.

 

[GAS_Attack]

I cross answer you... you could use a Bigsby, or even a fixed bridge and it would do the job.

Not crazy about trems, so Bigsby is probably overkill for me. I was thinking of using the Danelectro fixed bridge (i.e., with the rosewood chunk for the strings to lay on) but I really want an intonatable bridge.

 

[Will_White]

You could do a tail piece and tunomatic.

 

[Jon Clegg]

You could always build a bridge from brass stock and use commercial saddles like this one maniac

 

[GeraldMcG]

You could always build a bridge from brass stock and use commercial saddles like this one maniac

Nice bridge but how did you convert the 1/4" x 3/8" brass to metric brass?

 

[Jon Clegg]

Nice bridge but how did you convert the 1/4" x 3/8" brass to metric brass?

Multiplied by 25.4 mm

 

[GeraldMcG]

Multiplied by 25.4 mm

I'm American, that is way too complicated for me.

 

[GAS_Attack]

You could always build a bridge from brass stock and use commercial saddles like this one maniac

I've thought of doing that, but it takes so long to drill in metal and I have a short attention span.

 

[GAS_Attack]

You could do a tail piece and tunomatic.

A possibility. Maybe just a Dano-like tailpiece where the strings just slip into grooves in an upturned bit of metal. Kinda like this (without the rosewood), with strings going forward into a tune-o-matic

 

[Jon Clegg]

I'm American, that is way too complicated for me.

I'm an engineer... and a maniac.

 

[rojo412]

I'm an engineer... and a maniac.

That's what I like so much about you, @Jon Clegg

 

[GeraldMcG]

I'm an engineer... and a maniac.

I see...a mad scientist

 

[GeraldMcG]

More random parts arrived from China!

 

[Jon Clegg]

Me? A mad scientist?

So I might happen to own a lime green lab coat...

And heavy black rubber gloves...

And occasionally look a bit disheveled...

And this guy might sorta kinda bear a passing resemblance to me...


But I don't know that that makes me a mad scientist.

 

[Fat Freddy]

Me? A mad scientist?

So I might happen to own a lime green lab coat...

And heavy black rubber gloves...

And occasionally look a bit disheveled...

And this guy might sorta kinda bear a passing resemblance to me...
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But I don't know that that makes me a mad scientist.

As mad as a sackful of ferrets.....

 

[Beej]

LOL you guys