Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
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Re: Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
And aren't the saddles in the wrong place for intonation on that picture, also?
Maybe it's a feature and not a bug.
Maybe it's a feature and not a bug.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
I had never seen this bridge. I looked on reverb and the two bridges available have the saddles mounted the same way. Outside of modern compensated Tele saddles this looks like some 70s hack job “fix” that most people face palm emoji when they pop up.
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Yes! This time the middle and High b/e saddles are reversed.
There are two saddles with the same string offset, and one with the alternate. So, 1 in 3 of getting it right? Or 2 in 3 of getting it wrong? I’m no math scientist, but so far, I think we’ve seen wrong 2 out of three times? Which is a %100 failure to do it right.
But according to him “ It works great!”
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Re: Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
The bridge could be the best design in the world - his pickups are pretty good - I still wouldn't buy it because I wouldn't be at all sure if receive it, he is as flaky as puff pastry.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
This bridge, I just can't get my head around it. The original idea is great, it's been around OSG for ages and it seems to work pretty well; but stringing it through those damn left over holes from the original saddles is such an ass backwards thing to do. He took a pretty good idea, called it his own and implemented it in the most shitty way possible. Bad bussiness all around.
You can spend 15 dollars and an equal amount of minutes with a handdrill and a screwdriver and you'll have the same bridge.
You can spend 15 dollars and an equal amount of minutes with a handdrill and a screwdriver and you'll have the same bridge.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
This is the bet bridge in the Offet market.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
Concept: a rocking bridge stops strings grinding through its saddles. Thank you Paul!
Wait a minute, that means they aren't grinding through those holes either!
Sure looks faithful to Leo's Tele to me. Here too, the break angle is governed by launching the strings through holes in the bridge plate! Thank you Leo!
So we have the adjustable six point arc of Tele saddles doing what they do into an optimized JM bridge.
And the coupling of bridge energy and guitar is pure Jazz Master. Damn! Thanks again, Leo!
Now we all know we really hate rocking bridges; They are always drifting out of intonation.
But wait a minute! look at that zig and zag those damn holes put in your strings. That clinch lets you set whatever bridge "home position" you prefer when you install strings.
HOT DIGGITTY DAMN! THANK YOU JESS!
I think Leo and Paul are smiling, and would buy Jess a beer.
I'm with them, and we're out of here!
Shameful.
Wait a minute, that means they aren't grinding through those holes either!
Sure looks faithful to Leo's Tele to me. Here too, the break angle is governed by launching the strings through holes in the bridge plate! Thank you Leo!
So we have the adjustable six point arc of Tele saddles doing what they do into an optimized JM bridge.
And the coupling of bridge energy and guitar is pure Jazz Master. Damn! Thanks again, Leo!
Now we all know we really hate rocking bridges; They are always drifting out of intonation.
But wait a minute! look at that zig and zag those damn holes put in your strings. That clinch lets you set whatever bridge "home position" you prefer when you install strings.
HOT DIGGITTY DAMN! THANK YOU JESS!
I think Leo and Paul are smiling, and would buy Jess a beer.
I'm with them, and we're out of here!
Shameful.
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^You the same dude that writes those crazy karma posts?
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Re: Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
This would have more- well, really, some- meaning if this wasn't your first post.
Who was "Paul" supposed to be?
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Re: Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
No shortage of crazy around here the last couple years.
The cool thing about fretless is you can hit a note...and then renegotiate.
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Re: Has anyone tried the Jess Loureiro electrum bridge?
I think he meant Paul Reed-Smith, who (as we all know) co-designed the Jazzmaster with Leonard 'Lenny' Fender in 1987.
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David McComb, 1987.
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