DaveX Posted September 9, 2016 Posted September 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Caddie said: buy an old beat up Hamer with a sustain block bridge, strip it out and use it on your current project. then refurb the old beat up Hamer and put in whatever kind of bridge you want Cheers! caddie Great idea, if it only could be so easy...!-)
HamStd Posted September 9, 2016 Posted September 9, 2016 1 hour ago, Caddie said: wtf, another newbie gets invited to see the Great and Powerfull hamstd? I don't care if he is from Hamburg! Back of the line for you Mr 34 Posts Noob. caddie Come on Caddie, you know the routine: you take the left at the fork-in-the-road, then a right at Kookamunga. You put $500 in unmarked bills in a plain brown bag, you give that to the guard after showing him the secret handshake and he'll let you in. You are free to fondle anything you want (except for Hamerica, unless you buy him breakfast) as long as you clean-up after yourself. Peter
Caddie Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 kookamunga - even google maps couldn't find it. I asked my Über dude, he just shrugged his shoulders. However there is a Kookamunga Ln in McClure, PA, less than 90min from BCR Music. Coincidence or Conspiracy? Let the HFC mob sort it out. are those guys in the monk robes our Mods, beating themselves with that Confounded History of Hamer book that someone among our unwashed masses was working on? re: fondling Hamerica Does the fondling come before or after breakfast? Does Hamerica come with a side order of extra bacon? without the parsnip nose the accused witch kinda looks like Kim Basinger, eh?
cornjulio Posted September 10, 2016 Author Posted September 10, 2016 Apparently it's not so easy to cast the bridge That's the one on my 1980 sunburst... notice the angle!!! My man Ali Claudi was setting up this guitar for me because I've got zero skills and he almost lost it when he realised what the problem was
hamerhead Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 Holy crap! It wasn't sitting flat during milling and that's what you get. I'd bet from corner to corner the front edge thickness isn't real consistent, either. Notice how the back is fatter at the top and tapers down? That's really bad. Monday at the machine shop. On the up side, it's probably a one-off!
bubs_42 Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 2 hours ago, hamerhead said: Holy crap! It wasn't sitting flat during milling and that's what you get. I'd bet from corner to corner the front edge thickness isn't real consistent, either. Notice how the back is fatter at the top and tapers down? That's really bad. Monday at the machine shop. On the up side, it's probably a one-off! Damn, even I can hit it closer than that when I was in my 20's, hung over and coming in on a Saturday for straight time.
cmatthes Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 3 hours ago, hamerhead said: Holy crap! It wasn't sitting flat during milling and that's what you get. I'd bet from corner to corner the front edge thickness isn't real consistent, either. Notice how the back is fatter at the top and tapers down? That's really bad. Monday at the machine shop. On the up side, it's probably a one-off! Unless that is intentional to compensate for neck angle.
velorush Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 An absolute guess, but have a look at the angle and the lack of downward adjustment in the saddles... Now imagine the bridge with a flat bottom (thickness consistent front to rear). Any way the action adjusts as low as it is in the photo? I don't think so by quite a bit. Spurious conclusion: the bridge has been modified (factory or subsequent) to allow for the shallow neck angle of that specific guitar. Pure conjecture! But plausible? For the record, the Hamerhead bridge on the Senior is beautifully consistent.
hamerhead Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 Never considered the neck angle. It was definitely milled that way prior to plating (as opposed to sanding the bottom at an angle later). I wonder - how many more are like that?
velorush Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 I don't have any similar dead-on-bridge photos of my (former) '80 Special, but from what I can tell from those I do have, the bottom was flat.
bubs_42 Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 Neck angle adjustment would be corrected by just milling down the thickness of the whole plate. Saddles look like Mighty Mite's, who know's could have been a flub, could have been intentional, WE MAY NEVER KNOW!
Dave Scepter Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 10 hours ago, cornjulio said: Apparently it's not so easy to cast the bridge That's the one on my 1980 sunburst... notice the angle!!! My man Ali Claudi was setting up this guitar for me because I've got zero skills and he almost lost it when he realised what the problem was You should find shorter adjustment allen screws or have those cut down "from the bottom" to make it smooth across the bridge~ just my 2 cents.
cornjulio Posted September 10, 2016 Author Posted September 10, 2016 2 hours ago, Dave Scepter said: You should find shorter adjustment allen screws or have those cut down "from the bottom" to make it smooth across the bridge~ just my 2 cents. I effing know... got two holes in my palm now... I'm stigmatized...
Dave Scepter Posted September 11, 2016 Posted September 11, 2016 59 minutes ago, cornjulio said: I effing know... got two holes in my palm now... I'm stigmatized... Hahaha~ You can probably find them at Ace Hardware or cut them down with a Dremel tool...
The Shark Posted September 11, 2016 Posted September 11, 2016 All of mine are flat. A little different thickness on one of them. Might be a repro bridge as it's a refinished guitar.
Caddie Posted September 11, 2016 Posted September 11, 2016 2 hours ago, cornjulio said: I effing know... got two holes in my palm now... I'm stigmatized... Is it stamped MIK? Bullwinkle responds "whats wrong with Made In Kansas?" Cheers! caddie
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