dbirchett
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I bought an X-170 second hand many years ago. Great guitar but I am of the school that every guitar needs a Bigsby. So, I found a Gold Guildsby on Ebay and had a friend put it on. Here is my problem: the bridge.
Because of the narrow neck angle on the guitar, the bridge has to be very low profile. I didn't want to use the wooden bridge that came on it because it was compensated for a wound 3rd string and because it was, well, a wooden bridge. I figured that the strings sawing back and forth would damage the slots. So I put on a tune-a-matic type (I think a Gotoh) and it works reasonably well. But because of the narrow angle, as I move up the neck, the action gets higher and higher. I did shave quite a bit of wood off the feet of the bridge and it is sitting as low as it can. The neck is pretty straight. Now mind you even so it plays better than my Starfire, my Gretsch 6120, my G&L, Strat or Tele so maybe I am worrying about nothing of substance.
But for those that have added a Guildsby to their Mini-Manhattan, did you have problems like this? What did you do to resolve it/them?
Because of the narrow neck angle on the guitar, the bridge has to be very low profile. I didn't want to use the wooden bridge that came on it because it was compensated for a wound 3rd string and because it was, well, a wooden bridge. I figured that the strings sawing back and forth would damage the slots. So I put on a tune-a-matic type (I think a Gotoh) and it works reasonably well. But because of the narrow angle, as I move up the neck, the action gets higher and higher. I did shave quite a bit of wood off the feet of the bridge and it is sitting as low as it can. The neck is pretty straight. Now mind you even so it plays better than my Starfire, my Gretsch 6120, my G&L, Strat or Tele so maybe I am worrying about nothing of substance.
But for those that have added a Guildsby to their Mini-Manhattan, did you have problems like this? What did you do to resolve it/them?