How to Add Bridge Mass

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How to Add Bridge Mass

Post by ozwood » Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:30 pm

A new device for adding bride Mass :shock: :shock:

https://fret12.com/news/those-pins-dont ... r-acoustic

Fark !!!!! and you thought the JLD bridge doctor added some !


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Re: How to Add Bridge Mass

Post by needsmorecowbel » Sat Jan 31, 2015 7:20 pm

"but do they make them for 12 strings" :lol:
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Re: How to Add Bridge Mass

Post by charangohabsburg » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:58 pm

going to give your acoustic some SERIOUS POWER!!!!!!!!!!!
:lol:

Next "development" will be a bridge machined from a solid brass blank, which at the same time will be an ecological substitute for endangered ebony.
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Re: How to Add Bridge Mass

Post by simso » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:17 pm

I have so many reservations and questions, fitting something like that to a guitar

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Re: How to Add Bridge Mass

Post by DarwinStrings » Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:52 pm

That one has done pages of threads on the AGF. The designer has had his say there and even though he does call them "Power Pins" he is happy to concede that they are not quite like putting a 351 in your Morris Minor.
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Re: How to Add Bridge Mass

Post by charangohabsburg » Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:43 am

DarwinStrings wrote: The designer has had his say there and even though he does call them "Power Pins" he is happy to concede that they are not quite like putting a 351 in your Morris Minor.
Not the kind of statement his potential customers will read in his advertisements. :lol:
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Re: How to Add Bridge Mass

Post by woodrat » Wed Feb 04, 2015 12:23 pm

DarwinStrings wrote:That one has done pages of threads on the AGF. The designer has had his say there and even though he does call them "Power Pins" he is happy to concede that they are not quite like putting a 351 in your Morris Minor.
Jim...Perhaps more like putting a Morris Minor in your 351!.... :lol: :lol:
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