Stop Bar/Tail Piece

[metallibeast]

What´s up?



Can anybody tell me what´s the diff in having the stopbar/tail piece lowered all the way down as oppose to having it higher>



-Beast

 

[subversion]

hi beast. i understand what you are driving at...

there´s a popular belief that lowering the hard tail component of a tune-o-matic bridge will increase the sustain of the guitar. reason being that the contraption is now flushed & one with the body so the string´s reverberation is now transfered to the body more directly.



i have such a setting for my LP but if there´s any increase in the sustain, then it´s inaudible/ negligible. the LP already has enough inherent sustain. i hope this addresses your concern

 

[metallibeast]

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I tried it as well...dun really find any increase in sustain...rather I thought that my sustain is not as long

I probably need to try it out a bit more...lowered it when I changed my pickups

-Beast

 

[subversion]

some are of the opinion that if its flushed against the body, it´ll induce string breakage due to the steeper angle over the tune-o-matic bridge. but i haven´t snapped any strings since i did that...

 

[Dawn]

Hi everybody!



Subversion, have you tried stringing the reverse way?...i think they call it "over the top" or something. Where the strings are stringed in reverse and pulled over the top of the tail-piece so that the angle over the TOM bridge is not so steep... like the way those old Les Paul Gold-tops without TOM bridges are strung...

Btw, anyone DIYs their own nuts? to set your action etc?

I´m thinking of getting a Les Paul...any recommendations anyone? I´m also pretty interested in Active pick-ups? Anyone playing with those EMGs? What are they like ?

Thanks for any input

Cheers

 

[metallibeast]

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Me is a proud EMG user...check out my EMG - ZW post for a review of the 81 and 85 pick up



-Beast

 

[subversion]

yeah, i tried the wrap-over stringing. meant more for stop-tail type bridge though, not for tune-o-matic.

 

[edder]

string wrapping over is a hit a miss thing. on some guitars it sounds better, on others the sustain dies.