Another offset bridge option from Babicz

[ThatGuyOverThere]

Just spotted on Instagram. Full body contact bridge for offset-style vibratos. Seems a little on the over-engineered side, but I’m pretty curious about the difference full body contact would make.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFqMIKhnvHT ... r1nwk69mhr

[Embenny]

Judging from my ocular patdown, features include:

-locked to its posts
-roller saddles
-individually adjustable height, and therefore radius, as well.

It's certainly got a chunky aesthetic, but it pretty much hits all the right design points if you wanted to build an ideal fixed bridge that would still work with a vibrato.

[adamrobertt]

Looks like you have to cut the pickguard to mount it? Also seems unnecessarily huge. Not really a fan.

[pscates]

I suppose it has its place, for certain players and styles. But never in a gazillion years would I go down that road. It's almost as ugly as a Mastery.

*ducks

[SAVEStheDAY]

It looks really cool, and I'm sure it works well, but I don't know if I'd really be interested. All these outside the box solutions tend to cost a fortune and IME aren't really even that much better than a good old Mustang bridge anyway.

[Larry Mal]

Yeah, that's the Babicz way, isn't it?

Nice to have another option. It'll probably cost two hundred and fifty dollars.

[antisymmetric]

I suppose it has its place, for certain players and styles. But never in a gazillion years would I go down that road. It's almost as ugly as a Mastery.

*ducks

[Tafarel]

I suppose it has its place, for certain players and styles. But never in a gazillion years would I go down that road. It's almost as ugly as a Mastery.

*ducks

I agree with you. Jayzus, it looks like a building.

[Embenny]

Yeah, that's the Babicz way, isn't it?

Nice to have another option. It'll probably cost two hundred and fifty dollars.

Yep, that's exactly what Babicz is about. Making expensive, over-engineered solutions to problems most people don't have.

I bought the whole Mastery hype what feels like ages ago, but I'm down to a single bridge of theirs that I got as a matching set with a vibrato. The rest of my bridges are all floating - I have the few Staytrems I could get back when he was shipping here, and some Mustang/AmPro bridges. They do what I want them to do.

I just kinda like my offsets the way they were designed, with floating bridges. I even took off the Staytrem from my AV65 and went back to the stock bridge before selling it, and found that I loved it. I won't be spending any more money on expensive solutions to problems I don't have anymore.

[HarlowTheFish]

Not gonna lie, I think that looks pretty cool. Like, waaaaaay overengineered and unnecessarily complicated and partsy and, as has been mentioned, looks like a Gigantamax Duraludon.

But cool. It appeals to my more industrial sensibilities, and like, what offset isn't improved with more chrome?

[ShatoonBringerOfCorn]

Bridging with Babicz

Interested to see/hear how these are. Visually it's a big departure from the typical offset bridge.

[papa_hotel_delta]

I had an ES-339 with a Babicz, overall the guitar sang like a banshee, but I can't say it had anything to do with the bridge. Fiddly to intonate.

interestingly the instagram link is no longer working for me, and I can't find any information about it on the FCH site. Its looking to me like that is just the Babicz oem tom?

[Veitchy]

Considering what their Tele bridge looks like I'm not surprised it's fuggers. I'm sure it works 'fine'and costs a mint. If nothing else the sheer proliferation of offset 'solutions' recently would suggest that the market for the guitars themselves is reasonably healthy at the moment. Makes me hopeful for the second-hand market.

[mackerelmint]

Well, without knowing much about it, I like what I see. It looks like a building in a business park. Overengineered and super expensive? Yeah, that's babicz, all right, but I'd put money on it being an excellent sounding and performing bridge.

It wouldn't surprise me if it required additional routing underneath it to make space for extra bridge mass. Just a guess.

[timtam]