FOUR UNCLES ABR1 REPLICA BRIDGE-MOST ACCURATE IN THE WORLD

Two years in the making. A concerted reverse-engineering among the "Four Uncles" who made a group effort to 100% reproduce the vintage ABR1. If you have ever played an original you know these are an essential piece of tone gear that has not, until NOW been completely accurately reproduced. How many bridges have you seen proclaiming "vintage sound," when they don't even understand the materials and actual build methods that were used? You've never seen any other bridge with 50's design saddles in brass on any other bridges. Well you do NOW ;-) We used one of my guitars, which is quite bright and with my bright HD SS PAF bridge replica as an ideal test subject. The bridge is has on it now, is typical of every other bridge out there claiming to be a vintage bridge. Tall sharp saddles, the WRONG zinc alloy, no it will never collapse and because of that will never sound right either. Enjoy the presentation and excuse my fumbling fingers, but the Dupuytren's trips my fingers up always, sad to say. What you will notice in the video, is that the modern saddle is too brigth/harsh almost. Our replica bridge uses the correct zinc alloy, the correct brass alloys that we had to get mixed custom, because the old alloys don't match modern at all. The result is that the bright edge is much less, the sustain and big sound is suddenly now THERE. Notes in chords can be heard individually. But treble is not really lost, the sound is more cohesive and uniform; your pickups will "talk" instead sounding modern and missing something. Whats missing is a truly accurate ABR1 you can only get by buying an old one, and most of them are notched too deep, with notching in the wrong places and just too beat up to really use. I point out that the zinc castings were COPPER PLATED before nickel plated. This is hard to see on the vintrage ones because the copper almost looks more like old brass sometimes, or its just too aged and can be hard to see. The reason is that zinc DISSOLVES in nickel plating solution, because its an acid. Light copper plating protects the zinc while plating.
To order one of our bridges, contact me at [email protected] for USA orders only. If you are in Europe contact me at same email address and you will be directed who to contact there.
Enjoy!
Dave Stephens
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