Re: Bigsby on a strat.

Loomer · Post by **Loomer** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:13 pm

Can it be done? Is there something, aside from perhaps good taste, that keeps this config. from being at all popular? I did a search and was unable to find a thread discussing this.

The only thing I can really thing of the strumming-arm contour on the top. Would that get in the way? I like the idea of trying it on a beat-up mexi strat.

Whatta ya think?

mredhot · Post by **mredhot** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:28 pm

just cuz its unessecary and you have to change the bridge, you could buy a hard tail strat with a set in bridge instead of a floating bridge or change the config but im not really sur ehow easy that would be

BenHagerty · Post by **BenHagerty** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:31 pm

Wow that would look so weirrrdddd haha

sparky · Post by **sparky** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:40 pm

If you bought this you could do it.

http://www.rondomusic.com/product755.html

del · Post by **del** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:12 pm

Yes, it can be done: about halfway down this link, there is a picture of one of Ry Cooder's bigsby-equipped stratocasters.
http://rycooder.nl/pages/ry_cooder_Inst ... ffects.htm

Cool looking and, quite likely, cool sounding.

Del

IPLAYLOUD · Post by **IPLAYLOUD** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:26 pm

30th St Guitars in NYC once had a Black Strat...the Vibrato routing was filled-in and painted over (sloppily). TOM Bridge and Bigsby added.
Goofiest thing I ever saw...I wish I could have bought it!!

berlinbetty · Post by **berlinbetty** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:35 am

My own Squier 51...

Libertine · Post by **Libertine** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:33 am

very cool.

Mighty Tom · Post by **Mighty Tom** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:24 pm

berlinbetty wrote: My own Squier 51...

Intriguing. Suddenly I feel like buying a Squier.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:17 pm

del wrote: Yes, it can be done: about halfway down this link, there is a picture of one of Ry Cooder's bigsby-equipped stratocasters.
http://rycooder.nl/pages/ry_cooder_Inst ... ffects.htm

Cool looking and, quite likely, cool sounding.

Del

+ 1. i went into this thread thinking the samething. Coodercasters rule.

1946dodge · Post by **1946dodge** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:39 pm

Putting a Bigsby on a strat is like putting a tremolo on a les Paul.
In both cases it would detract from the guitars whose design, IMHO is perfected.
A Bigsby on anything else, is fine to me, but on a strat? Nah!
But of course if that is what you want, you should have it.

northern_dirt · Post by **northern_dirt** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:42 pm

1946dodge wrote: Putting a Bigsby on a strat is like putting a tremolo on a les Paul.
In both cases it would detract from the guitars whose design, IMHO is perfected.
A Bigsby on anything else, is fine to me, but on a strat? Nah!
But of course if that is what you want, you should have it.

I can understand your point of view..
But as someone who doesn't care for strats
I see slapping a bigsby on it makes it a lot better..

Same thing for Tele's and SG's...

1946dodge · Post by **1946dodge** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:11 pm

How about a Floyd Rose on a Les Paul?

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:55 pm

berlinbetty wrote: My own Squier 51...

Awesome! I should have bought one or two of those when they were like $100.

Loomer · Post by **Loomer** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:01 am

1946dodge wrote: Putting a Bigsby on a strat is like putting a tremolo on a les Paul.
In both cases it would detract from the guitars whose design, IMHO is perfected.
A Bigsby on anything else, is fine to me, but on a strat? Nah!
But of course if that is what you want, you should have it.

I respect purism, but respectfully disagree. I personally love Bigsbys on Les Pauls. And while I have a special place in my heart for Strats, I don't hold them sacred. I also think the Strat's trem is far from perfect. ...at least on the Mexicans that I buy. Strats are so mass produced, and the MIM's are so cheap and well-built that they kinda beg for modification. (but then again i hear EVERYTHING beg for modding.

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I think I've settled on a blue pawnshop gem. Any expert or "weekend expert" advice on how to proceed? Like filling the bridge holes and trem cavity and determining precise placement of the posts for the new bridge? Will a Mustang bridge work, or am I going to have to shop around for something else? etc... I'm a noob, but thorough and meticulous to a fault(read:anal), and excited to get my hands dirty.