Worked BETTER than I expected seeing the way you mounted it, threaded it thru the existing bridge plate and bridge saddles, I honestly thought it would NOT stay in tune! I thought you would NEED, a new roller bridge etc, but it came out ok! +1 for you then! \m/
Hi Hutch, I have an idea how you can age that trem. Take it to the beach and walk to the waters edge at low tide, then throw it into the sea as far as possible. Go home, fill the holes in the body with wood filler then play as usual. Alternatively soak the unit in vinegar for about 6 months...... Still think the best use for a trem is a boat anchor me old mate!!!!
I did the same to my Harley Benton TE-70RW and it turned out wonderfully. I swapped springs that the chigsby came with with a $10 reverend soft spring, made a huge difference in playability of the Bigsby. For $10 i highly recommend it. It also lowers the tremolo arm down a good amount which helps too. Nice job on yours!
Hey thanks for this video! I built this kit last summer and it's an ongoing mod project now, got a Gretsch Filtertron for the bridge and plan to get a P90 for the neck, but I've also been contemplating putting one of those ebay chigsby's on it. Great to see someone else do it. Best!
I bought one if these and fitted it to a duo-sonic years ago. It never returned to pitch. Was a real shame. Now have a Tele with a factory fitted Bigsby. It's a big difference.
Hey Brent. I bought the very same unit. The outcome is nothing like yours though. Tuning nightmare !! That thing won't return to pitch , even with the gentlest use....you got me very envious when I saw you rock this thing around and still maintain decent tuning
@@BrentHutchinsonMaybe you're right in pointing out the nut. it being a graphtech xl I had taken it out of the equation , but widening the slots and pouring graphite in the other day seems to have slightly improved it, the detuning may be less drastic with gentle wobbles but I'm still far from your demo.Anyway, maybe I'll debbug another point of friction someday . :-)
I added one of these to my first build (the Tele Thinline in my pic). It's a fabulous bit of kit. Mine arrived undamaged, thankfully. I took some of the shine and casting marks off with wet/dry paper. It's performed faultlessly ever since.
A year later i just found your video and got one for my tele project . Glad to know the issue from video 2 was fixed also haha Is it still holding up now ? Great content by the way , keep going
Wait until the plastic bushing starts to wear and deform on the Chigsby. Then you can have fun trying to keep the guitar all the time. Don't cheap out with a plastic bushing Chigsby. It's a string breaker without having the proper type of roller bridge to use with it.
Well, it sounds great. I don't think I would put that on an expensive tele but why not on A HB kit? I am surprised that it worked with the existing bridge. Pretty cool. I am really liking your channel.
Does it have the same size dimensions as a regular B5 Bigsby? If I were to buy a guitar with this already installed. And wanted to swap it out for a real one later would it fit the same screw placement ?
Brent the Shredder, who'd have thought it :o You have put me off buying one though. It really is a 15 quid part. As you say, just the job for that guitar though. I'd be scared to gig it with it strung like that. Too worried about breaking a string! The gig would be over by the time you got a new string on!!
Haha yeah think you are right. I need to mod the bridge but in the interest of curiosity I'm gonna gig it.. tonight in fact .. but I will have a spare on hand so no worries!
My OCD refuses me to like the overlap but all in all its a cool mod brother. Did you look up tape wound strings? Think it was called an epiphone emperor I used them with and wow. Couldn't put it d own. Playing Django Rhindhart and lead belly.
I installed a wilkinson ashtray style bridge and I cut notches into it and widen them with some cheap mini files to cut back on the friction. I aslo installed the Bigsby style knockoff vibrato system like yours and it works great although it has gotten a bit loose. I saw in your follow up video to this one, that the tremolo arm had come off. Did you fix it?
compared to price of a genuine Bigsby it's great. I have a chigsby on my Alan george thinline tele which has P90's and ABR style bridge. i wonder if the friction on strings through the rear hole might cause them to snap. i used a GFS Vibrato on my DeArmond and it was so much easier to fit, no screw holes in body. if the strings are rubbing on top of the bridge rear holes i'd possibly suggest cutting above the holes on the bridge so they dont rub? it might work.
No live stream tonight? Would've been late as one of my girls has a birthday today and we've been out for something to eat. Try to keep an eye out for when it's happening
A bargain. I'm thinking of building a thinline with P90's in the summer and I'm tempted to go this route rather than the hardtail I was originally going with. My very first guitar was a plank my cousin bought in the 70's and I took off his hands in about 1990 and it had a trem that worked a lot like that and held tune better than my Marlin strat with a Floyd Rose copy and locking nuts but between them they put me off trems and my first love was a Tele.
@@DMSProduktions I did a video on it. It's from the 80s a Texan called Chris Whitely used one on a dobro also Frank Zappa so I'm told. They fetch upto 400 quid
Too many contact points after the roller bar. Grind slots where the string through holes are. no need for them anymore. There's plenty of string break angle with the roller bar before the saddles.
@@BrentHutchinson Thought some people put a nylon tube in those holes, but that's still another binding point...get rid of them. www.bigsby.com/2013/02/28/modifying-a-vintage-style-telecaster-bridge-plate/
