Part 2 - Electric Guitar Kit Bridge Installation
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2013
- Part 2 - This is the second video in the series show you how to install a two-piece stoptail bridge on your home-built electric guitar kit (check out the Part 1 first!). If you're like us, you want your guitar project to be perfect. Installing the bridge is something that can seem intimidating, but is something that you can do if you take your time and follow along with Paul as he shows how to install and get perfect intonation every time. You can install a bridge with a modest number of tools. In the video, we recommend a drill press for one operation, but if you're careful and have someone that can help you, it can be accomplished with a hand drill.
We've had some folks ask about the bridge we are installing, and the kit we are installing it on. The kit is a PVX Double Cutaway and the bridge is a TonePros T3BP Locking Nashville-Style Bridge and T1ZS Matching Locking Stop Bar Tailpiece. The techniques in the video will work with pretty much any kit and 2-piece bridge.
In this second video, Paul shows how to drill the holes for the tailpiece and then install the post inserts. Part 3 shows you how to locate the bridge and get the intonation perfect before drilling the holes to install the bridge.
Great question. Great because no one has yet supplied a coherent answer to this great mystery. Sometimes grounding the bridge is a perfect solution to a noisy guitar, sometimes it's completely unnecessary. If anyone can discuss this on an engineering level, the world would be grateful! (me too!)
Great videos man.I just bought a kit and I was really nervous about doing this.Nice easy to follow instructions
If you already have everything drilled to your satisfaction, you can't destroy the non existing paint and finish. If you do it once the paint and finish is done, you may cause unintentional problems (doesnt need to happen,simply more troublesome at that stage)
Exactly the video I wanted, thank you! :)
Thank you for this informative video, I do have a question. Why don’t you ground the bridge? I just recently had an issue with my home made Les Paul, it was noisy and when I added a ground strip to the bridge it was way better. This guitar was equipped with P90’s maybe with humbuckers this si not a problem??
I am confused. Doesn't it make more sense to install the bridge and tail studs after you paint and finish? Unless you pulled them again or mask them off or does it really matter because I installed my tail studs before I have painted and realized that it may not have been that great of an idea. Les Paul BTW