Using the cover to anchor the strings?
Hot mess mods
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Or a top loading bridge.
fronobulax
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I was thinking more of adding a tail piece and then having to make holes in the cover.
To save us from my 1,000 words imagine a cover that ends at the bridge and extends towards the PU. The strings would have to go through the end of the cover to get to the tailpiece.
So the hot mess mod probably had a tailpiece that was attached to the strap button or maybe had some kind of body clamp.
fronobulax
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String extenders
Bass strings aren't cheap. And strings, in general, are not as readily available in other markets outside of the US.
Ah, I think I get it, fro! That makes more sense an explanation.I was thinking more of adding a tail piece and then having to make holes in the cover.
To save us from my 1,000 words imagine a cover that ends at the bridge and extends towards the PU. The strings would have to go through the end of the cover to get to the tailpiece.
So the hot mess mod probably had a tailpiece that was attached to the strap button or maybe had some kind of body clamp.
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Looks to me like the owner was too lazy to take off the cover to change strings, so they just drilled access holes to run the strings through. Never mind how well the strings might actually be seated on the barrels "under the cover".
PreacherBob
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Perfectly intonated carriage bolt
wileypickett
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Well, you can tune the high E anyway. The other five strings are just overkill.
Yeah, I think that's just a joke, Glenn. But a good one!
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Is there an imogi for just shaking your head?
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Again, where do you find this stuff? If you take in repair jobs, and these are pics of what you try to remedy, you really ought to find a better place to live because the folks around you, as they say in the South, "ain't right."
Guildedagain
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That's quite common in these parts actually.
My only classical for many many moons now is a 1976 Alvarez Cosco parking lot meet guitar that was posted on CL by someone's mom, kid had long ago abandoned the guitar - $75 - strung as you see with steel strings but taken to the next step for "better action", no bridge saddle.
Bridge saddle had been taken out, apparently in the way. It played, but not very well.
Also had initials burned into the back through the sound hole in quite large letters.
A fabulous sounding guitar. I've never wanted to sell it, or upgrade it.
It was caseless, so I haunted eBay until some horrible classical showed up on eBay from Goodwill Seattle - they get a lot of stuff - with a nice case with Japan stamped hinges, I snagged it and sold the guitar on CL super cheap. The Alvarez sleeps in the case year around, only sees the light of day when I check on the sponge.
Back in the day, I used to take it out to parties and people liked the tone, it does a mean rendition of Love Story and plays random bits from my childhood like Jeux Interdis. Someone asked me once during a break, "What kind of guitar is that?", because it's not something a lot of people have heard.
Alvarez chiaroscuro with peppers
Has a nice top, cedar maybe, but has nice bearclaw.
And the saddle I made from bone.