Samick guitar bushing
In fact, once it's on there, you have a heck of time getting it off it's posts. I would like to also note that I replaced the worn tailpiece on my sheri, and the new one do not fall off when you loosen the strings. It will fit easily, fit well, and may improve performance and looks. Inadequate sheraton II bridge, just check bushing size and type against the original.
So, you can now choose almost any brand model or type of bridge in metric size as a replacement for your worn or otherwise Graph Tech saddles are less tall, so using them will also guarantee a better action range. I don't expect you'll have any trouble in this regard with roller bridges. You can also, as I did, lower the overall height of those saddles so that any action problems are cured. My palm heel could rest on, or brush against the bridge saddles with not scratching of the skin. I rounded my original bridge saddles off at each end, though I sacrificed some gold, so that Solid saddles also tend to have sharp edges. Solid saddles can be filed down, as on my sheri. Rollers cannot be lowered except by the bridge post height adjustment. So, remember that if you use heavier guage strings to consider the saddle height of whatever bridge you choose as a replacement. because I hadĪlready modified it's saddles and they were lower on the High E side, which allowed me to lower the strings for good action.
011's on my sheri which has the repro bridge, I replaced the bridge with my old one. Getting low action of the high E string is difficult. 011 guage strings on the reproduction Samick style bridge, which has rather tall saddles, This completes the installation, all one does is tune the strings, choose action and you're done.
The next pic shows the original bridge followed by a pic of the new bridge. Into the guitar, for string height adjustment. The next pic shows the new bridge but this time well fit, both sides pushed down well onto the posts, and the posts lowered Here is the new bridge, perched atop the raised posts. The chrome or other color posts in them, and the chrome, or other color bridge, on top of that. This means that if you don't want to remove the bushings, you can just mount bushings will interchange.īridges will interchange on either posts or bushings. In the next pic I show the bushings, original gold and replacement in chrome are the same. You always have to raise or lower each side incrementally, back and forth. No bridge will go down all the way on one side, while leaving the other side up. The bridge posts, going a little on one side then a little on the other. You must watch as you lower the bridge posts, as one side or the other will tend to be pushed up. You'll notice the low E side is not flush with the post top. The next pic shows the new bridge mounted on the posts. The bushings will match the holes in your body. That means that you can use a gold bridge, and your old bushings, or you can use a metric black or chrome bridge if you pull your bushings So the new metric posts and bushing are THE SAME SIZE. In the next pic we see the posts in the bushings, but raised.Īlso note, the treble side is chrome. accented by their weak/shallow insertion in the bushings. the threads are barely in the bushings, the threads allow more wiggling of the The difference in spacing between posts is greater so one side fits, the other side wontīut by raising the posts, we find they will wiggle a bit. With the bridge posts installed, but lowered to normal setting, we can see in the first pic that the metric sized rollerīridge will not fit over the posts. In the second picture, we see the orginal bridge, a metric chrome roller bridge, and a recent issue epiphone standard tunematic bridge side by side from the back.
In the first picture we can see, though it's a bit hazy-hard pic to take with my little digital camera, the post holes Which made me wonder if there might be enough clearance created by raising the bridge posts, creating more wiggle room-the farther down you have the posts, the tighter they fit, the less clearance or wiggle you have. However, dubwise in this forum, asking a question about bridge rattle, was advised to use teflon plumbers tape Indeed if you have your posts in the guitar, and try to set a metric bridge on them, it wont fit. The original bridge, if compared to after market bridges, shows the post holes to not line up.Ĭonsequently, everyone, including me, thought that standard metrci aftermarket bridges would not fit. Some want to go chrome, some want rollers, or graph tech saddles, or Tone Pros. Had saddles that were fairly porous material. Some are concerned that the tone isn't what it could be.