I was googling myself silly about cheap and easy solutions for B bender, and you looked right into my soul and knew exactly where I had been and what I had done, and were about to deliver a solution I had never thought of yet. Thank you. Please make more content!
As said by previous poster you seemed to hit the nail om the head for what I was looking for ie a cheap B bender mechanism. The only problem is $150 seems very expensive for a small piece of metal. ( Is it made of Gold? ) Surely this can be made much , much cheaper?
This seems a pretty affordable solution. I have a hip shot, which is easier to use, but you have to wait until you find a good price. Mine was $150 brand new. You do have to drill a small hole in the bridge back plate for the string, though.
I'll be getting one, thanks to you and your informative and entertaining video. Brought a smile to my face several times while I still took everything in. You're a champ, BT!
Thanks for posting this. I've got one of these on my strat. It's fun and nobody expects it haha. If you do a strat with the usual trem bridge, you need to use 3+ springs and make it really tight down so when you use the bender it doesn't pull the rest of the strings sharp.
I play country music. I love bending strings. This settles it. Im getting a Rolling B Bender for my Michael Kelly '53 Tele. I already use a MXR Phase 90 for that Waylon sound. A B- Bender will rock.
Thanks for sharing this. I often wondered how these things installed and how they work out. I was a little scared by the fancier benders that screw into body. I did see a guy who made a bender out of a dinner spoon. Which I don't know if it would last, but also didn't need any drilling into the guitar.
Don’t really do country and western music but that little gizmo does a great job of it. In the right hands I don’t see it sounding any different than a traditional B bender. 👍thanks for a good video.
I think it's awesome, especially since you bend from the back and can still palm mute. I think if you had a tele ashtray that has the bottom part shaved off or lower than the top, then the pick will not get stopped by the bottom part of the ashtray, but I don't know if they make one for fender. I think they do, but don't know if it's the patent pending. Anyway, I'm a super tele guy, so I think this is super affordable and modular--I mean if you want to switch back to a regular tele, you can do that too or switch back to the "rolling bender." Thanks for the video. I love the lap-steel sound or b-bender sound.
Its great for me because - and I'm meaning well here - you were obviously flying blind there and thats the pace Id be doing it. I've now gotta find where I can buy a Rolling Bender. Cheers & greetings from Hampshire, England.
Main thing is that if you end up not liking it,just remove it and reinstall the original saddle. Your guitar is unscathed and you’re not out $900.00 +.
Thanks for the video about this unit, it's yet another B bender I was previously unfamiliar with, and TBH now I think about it, it is probably the best one I've seen so far, next to a actual Parsons /White or Glaser strap pin activated bender, as you can still palm mute the strings, something that you can't do with a Certano G & B bender.. Another B & G bender from Apollo Guitar Parts in Australia with leavers beneath the bridge looked good, but once I got thinking about it I can't see how one could be used while picking at the same time, which defeats the purpose. The Hipshot just looks cumbersome in use, plus is IMHO as ugly as a pigs butt when fitted
That is so cool. Been obsessed with the b bender since I first discovered, and this seems like a very good compromise, as for most the b benders are not particularly practical. How does it affect tuning?
Good video.. I dont often give likes or subscribes, but your video was simple, and to the point, I look for that in instructional videos. Well done, man.. If you start putting useless stuff like animated flames on your fingers or, a bunch of nonsense off topic jokes and stuff I will be gone.
The only problem with this bender is it kills your break angle (the sound of a telecaster). The regular bender is the only one that keeps the break angle thus keeping your guitar sounding like a tele. That’s why bigsbys ruin a tele’s sound.
I got a lot to learn about making videos! Sorry that the audio quality isn’t very good. Again, this video is not sponsored, but I recommend checking out rollingbender.com if you want a simple bender solution. Peace and love! BT
@@TheUsefulMusician not Sponsored , good ! They've got to make two RU-vid's one for product influencers and another for people without agendas. I don't know about everyone else , I'm sick of it.
The cheapest, easiest B-Bender is the middle finger of your fretting hand, although it does require an investment of time to practice licks that work, and there will of course be some that can only be achieved with a proper B-bender. For 99.9% of the time though, it'll do.
