Stray Dog Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Hi! Im planning to convert an old acoustic into an electric, basically by adding a humbucker. I will also be upgrading other hardware such as tuners. Im thinking I want to give it a trapeze tailpiece, such as those on hollowbody jazz guitars. I am looking at this one, which I already have on a semi-hollow guitar. http://store.guitarfetish.com/caophatagofo.html The thing Im wondering about is if the angle will be big enough, as the acoustic has a much lower bridge.... Will this work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryovanni Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Hi! Im planning to convert an old acoustic into an electric, basically by adding a humbucker. I will also be upgrading other hardware such as tuners. Im thinking I want to give it a trapeze tailpiece, such as those on hollowbody jazz guitars. I am looking at this one, which I already have on a semi-hollow guitar. http://store.guitarfetish.com/caophatagofo.html The thing Im wondering about is if the angle will be big enough, as the acoustic has a much lower bridge.... Will this work? You will have very little if any break angle. Raising the bridge would be required most likely. If you raise the bridge. You will raise the action high, and will need to adjust the neck angle to bring it back down. If you do this you will diminish the bridges ability to transfer string energy to the soundboard. You are also changing the way the pressure is applied to the soundboard and will have to be careful not to cause it to collapse or deform(one way or the other the acoustic nature of the instrument will be dampened at a minimum). I don't think I would attempt this myself. I would probably just use a sound hole pickup or rig up a humbucker to act as such. Then again you could build an awsome Jazz box, and use that trap on it. Peace,Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myka Guitars Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Rich is right, the guitar might need to be altered too much to make a taipliece work correctly. The Selmer-Maccaferri style has that classic gypsy jazz tone that Django was popular for. If this is the sound you want then a taipliece is essential. Check out this site (last picture shows bridge/neck angles and action): Selmer style guitar Here is another site: http://www.michaeldunnguitars.com/ ~David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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