I have not looked at one but in theory the factory could drill two small holes in the feet (I mean they could order them that way) and put two pins in the wooden top at the right position and your bridge is "pinned". Would make sense for the "normal" buyer. So we need a member who has a newer one to check at next string change!
Turns out, no. Looks exactly like the pinned one in Guild’s pic which is what threw me off. I wonder if they felt the need to add pins to deal with people not knowing how to deal with a floating bridge.
In what manner?
Sounds like my guess in post #6 was correct!
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Well, not at the same time... The early models from 2013 onwards obviously had unpinned bridges and later on that was changed as it sounds. And I guess the reason is that a lot of younger players never ever set up a floating archtop bridge regarding intonation. The pins will certainly help to keep the guitar in tune.
So are those newer feet just the same as the floating ones with a hole drilled in the bottom? (Such that they'd be usable on a floating bridge Aristocrat?)
. . . and giving incorrect advice, of course.
That's a question I cannot answer, we need somebody like guitarlover or anybodyelse with a new M-75 Aristocrat to take pictures of the pins in the top and the bottom of the feet the next time they change strings!
