Kostas Kritsilas
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Link to Ferro guitars was provided in my first post on this.
I was only trying to help the original poster. It may have been worth his while, if he were dead set on doing this, to have a conversation with the person machining the Ferro parts. Maybe it will cost more than a Les Paul Jr. or Special. Maybe it won't. Maybe the guy running Ferro has no interest in doing it. Nobody knows until the question is asked. You can't ask Gotoh, TonePros, or Faber because all of their bridges are cast, with a possible machining to finish up. The Ferro bridges are machined from a block of aluminum under CNC control. Far easier to create new designs than having a mould made, especially for one piece.
And again, with all your many years of professional guitar playing, please be so kind as to letting us know how removing a tailpiece will "damage" a guitar? At worst, it will fail, and he will put the standard bridge and tailpiece back. Where is the damage? The only thing damaged is the original poster's pocket book, and it is his pocketbook to damage. He isn't going to be putting new inserts into the body, and this mythical wrap around bridge, even if it is made and is cost effective, will use the standard posts that currently exist on the guitar.
Also note, this is not my project. I was just making a suggestion to the original poster as something to be looked into.
The "pitch" as is being called, is not a "pitch", it is a video made by a guitar builder/repair person (who I personally have a big problem with), not the person making the bridges.
I was only trying to help the original poster. It may have been worth his while, if he were dead set on doing this, to have a conversation with the person machining the Ferro parts. Maybe it will cost more than a Les Paul Jr. or Special. Maybe it won't. Maybe the guy running Ferro has no interest in doing it. Nobody knows until the question is asked. You can't ask Gotoh, TonePros, or Faber because all of their bridges are cast, with a possible machining to finish up. The Ferro bridges are machined from a block of aluminum under CNC control. Far easier to create new designs than having a mould made, especially for one piece.
And again, with all your many years of professional guitar playing, please be so kind as to letting us know how removing a tailpiece will "damage" a guitar? At worst, it will fail, and he will put the standard bridge and tailpiece back. Where is the damage? The only thing damaged is the original poster's pocket book, and it is his pocketbook to damage. He isn't going to be putting new inserts into the body, and this mythical wrap around bridge, even if it is made and is cost effective, will use the standard posts that currently exist on the guitar.
Also note, this is not my project. I was just making a suggestion to the original poster as something to be looked into.
The "pitch" as is being called, is not a "pitch", it is a video made by a guitar builder/repair person (who I personally have a big problem with), not the person making the bridges.
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