Would this work?!?!

[Simon Martin]

I've managed to get all the ingridients to build myself a tasty looking Hofner 182 bass but cant find the alluminium floating bridge.
I've found a few alternatvies of using a wooden one from a violin bass but then i ame across an image


Someone had nocked one together using some nuts and bolts!!
Would this ound like complete tat or is this guy a genius?

Cheers,

Simon

 

[Rip Topaz]

I've managed to get all the ingridients to build myself a tasty looking Hofner 182 bass but cant find the alluminium floating bridge.
I've found a few alternatvies of using a wooden one from a violin bass but then i ame across an image

Someone had nocked one together using some nuts and bolts!!
Would this ound like complete tat or is this guy a genius?

Cheers,

Simon

That might actually work, but pretty low-tech. Wow.

 

[Simon Martin]

Saves me 40 quid on a violin bass one though. Thank god for the internet! cheers for the reply.

 

[mech]

Interesting.
Besides not being able to set the intonation it should work just to get it playing. After you get the string spacing set lock the nuts together by tightening them toward each other at the same time. Otherwise they may vibrate apart. I'd do some file work to have equal contact points between the nuts and the string to prevent buzzzzzzes.

mech

 

[bolophonic]

I love kludged fixes on pretty much anything. I might add a drop of loctite to each nut.

 

[Roger Ford]

If you jamb those nuts together against the string, you will break the string or windings. I would just move the nuts close enough to guide the string, then back each nut off one turn to apply the locktite, then turn the nut back to where you had it originally. That way the locktite will penetrate the threads to hold it in place.