"Tone Pro" wrap around bridge location + installation

[@tuna22lm]

Good job I really like the jig you use for holding the guitar.

[@StringTechWorkstations]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@freto_cognito9001]

Great video and very cool guitar!

[@StringTechWorkstations]

Surprising for an El Degas. Really tenon in mortise / solid mahogany. The Japanese as so good at attention to detail ... they must have read the Gibson catalogue ... which states 24 3/4" as the scale ... length. When .. in fact ... the scale length is actually 24 5/8 "

[@amoruzz]

Very nice.

[@StringTechWorkstations]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@tuna22lm]

I thought Tone Pro wrap around bridges had individual saddle adjustments for setting up intonation mine does and all the other ones that I have seen on KZbin do. Your bridge in this video is not like that at all. Great video very interesting and informative if I was so old I could see myself learning how to do that would need a good teacher though lol.

[@TheTapMusic]

Not sure what make of bridge that is, but Music City Bridge makes a compensated tailpiece called The Savvy that looks very similar to that; I've had excellent luck with it on my Special

[@pedraw]

I'd be afraid of sanding right through the fret position markers. It really is amazing how far off the bridge post anchors were. Nice work.

[@StringTechWorkstations]

All worked out in the end. But ... ya' ... it was WAY outta whack.

[@Riverdeepnwide]

So many great memories triggered watching this one. Plus the wonderful new practical teaching and beautiful sounds you somehow get into every video! What a gift! Merry Christmas to you and family Mike. One of the favourite guitars I’ve ever played was a buddy’s ‘56 LP Special back some forty-five years ago. And then the funny part around the same time was drilling into a new project body and discovering the mill chuck had not been secured properly into the drive head, gravity & rpm dropped it right through while I was thinking I was pulling up. That little disaster did help my quality control over the next forty years though, never trust a previous setup, always check everything.

[@alexzharnikov9117]

Thank you for sharing ! These are brass inserts ?

[@StringTechWorkstations]

Yes 😊

[@jessecanarte5545]

I’m building a les Paul kit w p90s like a 54 Goldtop. I love look of the wrap around only and I play slide so the added sustain would compliment from a wrap around. But I also need to have accurate intonation. Would modern wrap around like the MojoAxe be the way to go or stick to reliable tunomatic & stoptail? I’m ok if it then looks like a 57 if that turns out to be the better choice. Thank you

[@StringTechWorkstations]

I am assuming that you want to use the guitar for both conventional playing AND slide. If that is the case, then set it up with whatever tunomatic or "sculpted single piece " bridge that you choose. Of course, You determine the intonation ... each time you move the slide. Good Luck !

[@yoheff988]

I have seen Gibson screw-ups like this many time, for the life of me I could never understand how that happened.

[@StringTechWorkstations]

This was actually a LP Copy. But .... yes .... I have had may Gibsons over the years that didn't quite get the bridge in the right place too.

[@backlineguy]

...you have forgotten more about making guitars 'right' than I will ever know!

[@vayabroder729]

Wow; how can Gibson have those measurements so far off? Those guitars are not cheap.

[@StringTechWorkstations]

This is an El Degas brand.

[@vayabroder729]

@@StringTechWorkstations Oh, ok. That explains it. For a moment there I thought it was the real deal.