steven43798 Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Hi, I'm new to the forum. I want to know if you can mount a tunomatic bridge with tailstop on a hollow body guitar. Or just what kind of bridge best goes with a hollow body archtop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithHowell Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 A tailstop and tunomatic will work on and ES335 style archtop where you have a central body block, but on a traditional acoustic archtop with X or longitudinal bracing you will need a trapeze tailpiece and an acoustic style (archtop) bridge. What guitar are you planning to build or modify/repair? Electric,acoustic? Keith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morben Guitars Posted May 14, 2004 Report Share Posted May 14, 2004 Exactly - the Stoptail needs some solid wood to ancor into... It's important when selecting a tailpiece that you have the necessary "break" angle over the bridge to keep the strings on the saddles. This is dependant of course upon the amount of carve on the top and the height of the tailpiece. Once those are met, you can get creative with what's going to keep the strings where they should be...I've always loved the angled ebony tailpieces. Someone did one that was painted the same as the guitar recently (Myka?)..it was stunning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven43798 Posted May 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2004 yeah the body dosnt have central block so i guess i'll need to get a good tailpiece, but what kind of bridge will work with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myka Guitars Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 steven, here is an archtop tune-o-matic bridge from StewMac. I have used these before on hollow guitars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaguar13 Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 steven, here is an archtop tune-o-matic bridge from StewMac. I have used these before on hollow guitars. That's the kind I have on my hollow body....mine's not quite that nice, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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