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Re: Rollers, rollers, rollers !

10/21/1999 10:31 PM
Farrow	Re: Rollers, rollers, rollers ! I play a '70s Gretsch Roc Jet and a (beautiful) factory-second '90s Korean Epiphone Casino, both with B11 Bigsbys. The B11 is the one with the "frame" cutout (the place usualy painted black with "Bigsby" on it. It's a double-roller (like the "horeshoe" units.) I replaced the nuts on both guitars with Corian -- actually cut from a free sample I got from a cabinet-making place. They have like a million colors and will give you a 1/2" x 2 "x 2" piece for free. Corian is VERY tough and doesn't get "sawed" by wound strings too much. It's also harder than the Graph-Tech nuts, which I like. Nice bright sound. The bridge on the Gretsch originally was the 6-roller Gretsch Space Command unit, but the saddles rattled so much I put the Bigsby bridge on. Interesting note: the underside of the Bigsby bridge is machined to a point, sort of. I guess this is so it will rock on the thumbwheels. The guitar stayed in tune better when I ground it flat. Go figure. The Casino has Graph-Tech saddles on the import Gotoh tunamatic. No tuning problems ever. BTW I use .013" - .056" Farrow http://surf.to/pharaohamps

10/21/1999 10:31 PM

Farrow

Re: Rollers, rollers, rollers !

I play a '70s Gretsch Roc Jet and a (beautiful) factory-second '90s Korean Epiphone Casino, both with B11 Bigsbys. The B11 is the one with the "frame" cutout (the place usualy painted black with "Bigsby" on it. It's a double-roller (like the "horeshoe" units.)

I replaced the nuts on both guitars with Corian -- actually cut from a free sample I got from a cabinet-making place. They have like a million colors and will give you a 1/2" x 2 "x 2" piece for free. Corian is VERY tough and doesn't get "sawed" by wound strings too much. It's also harder than the Graph-Tech nuts, which I like. Nice bright sound. The bridge on the Gretsch originally was the 6-roller Gretsch Space Command unit, but the saddles rattled so much I put the Bigsby bridge on. Interesting note: the underside of the Bigsby bridge is machined to a point, sort of. I guess this is so it will rock on the thumbwheels. The guitar stayed in tune better when I ground it flat. Go figure.

The Casino has Graph-Tech saddles on the import Gotoh tunamatic. No tuning problems ever.

BTW I use .013" - .056"

Farrow
http://surf.to/pharaohamps