dbishopbliss wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 9:16 am
Sorry for my ignorance... is ~52mm a good thing or bad thing with regard to the Mustang?
The bridge you have now is presumably the 0081239001 / 0054447049.
https://www.guitarpartsfactory.us/index ... ct_id=2336
You can measure its E-E spacing; it's usually around 55-56mm, or 11.2mm between strings. With 52mm it's 10.4mm between strings. So it's not
that different. It was changed on the Am Pro because the original necks were prone to the E slipping off the edge. You may or may not have that issue.
The Mastery and Staytrem also have 52mm E-E. A number of premium offsets are now stock with 52mm bridges, eg Marr jaguar, Am Pro jag and JM. Most tunomatics are around 52mm. The vintage jag/JM bridge with threaded barrel saddles can have whatever spacing you want (within limits of where the threads fall).
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index ... pic=8612.0
55-56mm is fine on many guitars. But those who have an issue with E slipping off often switch to 52mm. I am not sure that we have had many people who had an issue with a 52mm bridge being too
narrow. The only 9.5" fixed radius option that has 55-56mm now would be a
original Am Pro bridge. Unlike the Marr jaguar (7.25 radius), which changed its bridge part number when it went narrower, the Am Pro bridge did not change part number (7709942000). But most aftermarket sources should now be selling the 52mm version (always good to check, if that's what you want). The only real way to tell if a bridge that comes
off an Am Pro or Marr guitar is 52mm or 56mm is to measure it.
In addition to the 9.5 radius/52mm Am Pro bridge, you may find the 9.5 radius version of the Staytrem (52mm) somewhere online (ebay, reverb), but it probably won't be cheap.
"I just knew I wanted to make a sound that was the complete opposite of a Les Paul, and that’s pretty much a Jaguar." Rowland S. Howard.
And I'm not much of a tremolo user so I will probably be locking it down.
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