70sguy Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 I'm building a headless guitar and need a steinberger bridge system. The only place I can find to purchase one is musicyo.com I'm looking for an r-trem system. they are always back ordered on that site. last I checked they said they might have them by July. Does anyone know of another supplier? How about other than steinberger? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Irizarry Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Headless guitars are a particular interest of mine so I've done some research into resources which you can read here. The problem with the Steinberger system is that Musicyo really is the only vendor. You may find them on ebay but I have rarely seen them. I ended up buying a lower cost Musicyo Steinberger and stripping it for its neck, bridge and headpiece. If you're willing to look at fixed bridge solutions there are a couple of companies that produce such bridges. It also opens up the opportunity to take advantage of some alternative solutions which I've written about on my blog. The latest I've written on is a solution by Scott French. (Scott is a participant on Project Guitar and does beautiful work btw.) I also wrote about a similar solution by Todd Keehn of TK Instruments. Regards, Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Note that I contacted MusicYo once upon a time, and their R-Trem does NOT include the neck bit. You can, however, get a Synapse neck thingy for more than the cost of the R-Trem itself. Pair it up and you should still have a good combination, PLUS the ability to use regular strings as well as double-ball-end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Irizarry Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Note that I contacted MusicYo once upon a time, and their R-Trem does NOT include the neck bit. You can, however, get a Synapse neck thingy for more than the cost of the R-Trem itself. Pair it up and you should still have a good combination, PLUS the ability to use regular strings as well as double-ball-end. Have you been able to confirm compatibility with the Synapse headpiece in terms of string spacing? If it's a custom neck build then it's not so much of an issue but otherwise a concern... Regards, Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted January 16, 2007 Report Share Posted January 16, 2007 Good point-- I was assuming custom build. I have NOT confirmed compatibility with spacing for existing guitars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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