Schaller 455

[the guy who invented fire]

Any users here...I have a specific question.

[Funkfingers]

Well, post it, then.

[the guy who invented fire]

Alright, I know you feed the strings in from the top, they wraparound the bar then pass over the saddles...


But...could you feed the strings from a Bigsby through the holes in the 455 backwards then over the saddles using the bar in the 455 to get a good breakover angle or is it going to be too steep causing lots of string breakage??

[formula73]

I'm not sure that would work. They require the pull of the strings to keep them on the studs.

[Funkfingers]

That would mean a lot of friction surfaces along the string path.

If you already have a Bigsby style vibrato tailpiece, some sort of hybrid Tun-o-Matic with roller saddles would be a better bet. (Think Gretsch.) The Schaller 1266 is one obvious candidate.

[the guy who invented fire]

I'm not sure that would work. They require the pull of the strings to keep them on the studs.

Nope...you can use a wraparound and a Bigsby...even Gibson used wraparounds and Maestros for years on some guitars...still do, the string tension will hold it on.

[the guy who invented fire]

That would mean a lot of friction surfaces along the string path.

If you already have a Bigsby style vibrato tailpiece, some sort of hybrid Tun-o-Matic with roller saddles would be a better bet. (Think Gretsch.) The Schaller 1266 is one obvious candidate.

Thats my fear but the 1266 won't work...I don't have a tune-o-Matic, I have a wraparound...