RE: (TV) dudes, i'm very impulsive...

[grntg <grntg@yahoo.com>]

I thought those screws where for sticking picks under
;-)

--- Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com> wrote:

> At 12:46 PM -0800 3/15/06, robin dunn wrote:
> >so, maurice, there is hardware that would go where
> >those screws are whatever are?  close up in the
> >picture, it actually looks like three small, gold,
> >round heads.
> 
> Yeah, those three screws attach a curved piece of
> metal to the body, 
> which a separate tailpiece mounts to.  The vibrato
> arm attaches to 
> that tailpiece, so moving the arm flexes that curved
> metal piece, 
> giving you a slight surfy vibrato.  I use heavy
> strings, so I didn't 
> get enough effect out of it to keep it on--instead,
> it just went out 
> of tune.  (Hey, great!  A go-out-of-tune lever! 
> Just what I need!) 
> I think that's why most people just use the
> wraparound 
> bridge/tailpiece (and probably why Gibson used the
> wraparound 
> bridge/tailpiece from the Jrs).
> 
> You can kind of see it in the photos of this
> auction:
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7393583870
> 
> Somewhere I might have photos of when I left it on,
> but it's not been 
> on the guitar in quite a while, in part because of
> the tuning, and in 
> part because it was just more comfortable to play
> without all that 
> metal sticking up where my hand usually goes.
> -- 
> 
> Maurice Rickard
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