Weekend Workshop - unboxing a Babicz full contact bridge 

Ben you've left us hanging, where's the link to the finished product?

He pronounces his name as "Babitz". He was also one of the original main employees at the Newburgh Steinberger factory, and worked closely with Ned. Babicz is one of the go-to repairmen for old Steinbergers, and has written a couple articles on his experiences originally building them, and then repairing them years later (fun fact: turns out even full carbon fiber guitars _will_ move a little over the years, despite what he and Ned thought. Adjusting a CF neck without a truss rod is apparently a very involved process; he also now believes _all_ guitars should have a truss rod in the neck, even if it's made completely of carbon fiber. xD) Anyway, I think there's an article by him over on the HeadlessUSA site, who specialize in repairing and sales of old Steinbergers and headless hardware.

Man, this channel seems so professional. I love the way you talk! 😁 Makes you seem much more esteemed and wise. Lol

It's really quite ground breaking with the e-cam saddles. I'm very interested Babicz Full Contact Hardware.

Billy Gibbons isn't going to be happy when he finds one of his guitars is missing it's bridge! Or am I trying really hard to miss understand what you said. It made me smile anyway. It looks like a really good bridge.

I thought that was going to be the Babicz Les Paul bridge. Please do a review of that one too Ben, it looks like a beast.

I put one on my Jazz Bass. Changed the sound a bit, but allowed me to get better intonation and easier height adjustment.

Can hardly wait to see and hear the finished product. I just purchased the Billy F. Gibbons model in gold. Should look quite stunning on my goldy! Cheers!

looks like a hybrid between an tele bridge with Floyd Rose saddles. I like the design.

Just my feedback on ONE babicz bridge (a tuneomatic): After two weeks the plating started peeling off, making disgracious bubbles with discoloration all over the upper part of the bridge where my hand seats. So it obviously is linked to my type of sweat, but it's the first time a bridge does that to me.

can you unbox and review the Wilkinson bridge? I really want a clear review before I purchase.

About 80% of guitars on the planet should have this bridge period. !!!!!! rest of them should have original japanese made gotoh floyd rose...

I have had a tele type bridge for a while. Well made, sounds good. Very stable. Maybe not for the traditionalists but there you go. Also not cheap, but gettable for a reasonable price on eBay. I have also had the Tune-o-matic, also very good, and you can adjust the string heights. Got mine for 90 USD on eBay.

IMHO, Jeff Babicz makes the best bridge in the industry. I have 7 of them installed on my "F" style basses ( and just ordered # 8 yesterday ). Make sure to read the instructions and/or watch their videos since there is a bit of a learning curve to the installation and set up. Having used every bridge known to man on my builds I find these superior to all others. I believe you will be thrilled when you get yours installed. Can't wait to see the video of the outcome. Cheers!

WHat ended up happening with this, I can't find the build or results video.

I was very interested in these bridges until someone told me a certain youtuber likes them too and that's when I became skeptical. Hopefully your videos will shed some proper light on them.

Ben, I think you have passed the stage when you need to introduce yourself, your company and the reason for the video, you really can just jump straight in with the subject. The title is plenty introduction. That bridge is an interesting concept, it will be very interesting to see what you do with it.

There is a problem with the Babicz single coil Tele bridge. The thick Aluminium plate has low electrical resistance and acts as a shorted turn around the pickup. This is not so much of a problem with the humbucker version which you show in the video, because the shorted turn is outside of both pickup coils and has little effect.

Rick toone guitar maker, very interesting tuners as well as innovative 🤓

Any updates on the Babicz bridge?

Dag man! I wish you actually did something with that cool looking bridge. No complaints. I understand, we all have a bad day. Please pm me when you get that bridge in!

Progress?

What about your plans of building a guitar around this bridge? Would be of interest for me.

I have a partscaster with a hipshot fixed bridge on it but the saddles are maxed out in height so if anyone knows if this bridge would allow my strings to be a bit higher than the hipshot, that would be great. Cheers!

Ben, when the hell are you going to have those t-shirts in your shop? I've been meaning to buy one for ages but there are never any there...

Hi Ben. Did you get round to using the Babicz bridge?

Looks like a great design -- but aluminum with a zinc block (and a very skinny one, at that) gives me pause. If it were steel with a steel or brass block, I'd get one in a heartbeat.

Great lead up to a killer review.

Has enybody here used their Tune-o-matics? Do they make a lot of difference?

hey Ben, do you know nationality of the founder of Babicz guitars. Babicz(Babić) sounds like surname from south slavic languages.

Did you build it?

Get busy!!!

It might look like the Tokai USA

Babbitz

I think I’d do a little more research on a product and also on the designer/builder before doing a half-ass review on the product.😒☹️

ben I just finished my first build on your site I used one of the babicz bridges and a brass nut with cut inbetween each string to cut down on cross talk and with a rosewood neck, so I just made one around the full contact ideal lol funny how coincidces like that happen (crimsonguitars.com/guild/forum/work-in-progress-or-completed-projects/starting-my-first-guitar/page-3/#p8085)

you tease....

Pronounced Babicks.

the stammering and stuttering does not help a viewer at all

you talk too much in the beginning

Thats nice so he sends a free bridge to a guitar manufacturer while struggling musicians have to pay full wack.