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I want to replace the bridge on my Kustom K200A guitar [message #13371] Sat, 10 April 2010 07:55   garrym8 Messages: 4 Registered: April 2010 Junior Member the post spacing looks to be 3" center to center.Any suggestions? Thanks, Garry Report message to a moderator

Re: I want to replace the bridge on my Kustom K200A guitar [message #13374 is a reply to message #13371] Sat, 10 April 2010 21:55   pleat Messages: 1452 Registered: June 2004 Location: Belding, Mi Senior Member Why would you want to replace the bridge? Unless the bridge is missing, changing it only detracts from the guitars worth. pleat Report message to a moderator

Re: I want to replace the bridge on my Kustom K200A guitar [message #13479 is a reply to message #13374] Tue, 27 April 2010 22:34   garrym8 Messages: 4 Registered: April 2010 Junior Member yeah, I dont like the bridge on it.It moves around and goes out of tune right away.cant do the intonation on it with out it moving. Im not gonna throw the original away.So any suggestions as to what I could use as a good replacement? ideas are welcome,thanks! Report message to a moderator

Re: I want to replace the bridge on my Kustom K200A guitar [message #13483 is a reply to message #13371] Wed, 28 April 2010 07:49   stevem Messages: 4733 Registered: June 2004 Location: NY Senior Member If you where to ask me, and without seeing a good picture of the current bridge I would have to say that a Rickenbacker bridge comes to mind. I am judging this off of looking at my Rick 660s 12 string bridge of which the 6 string version is the same. I just went to the Rick site and they do not give the size specs, but I can check whct size mine is and post back on Friday. These bridges stand up on 4 screws in each cornor and there looks to be enough meat at each end to drill the needed mounting hole to reuse your two support studs. Report message to a moderator

Re: I want to replace the bridge on my Kustom K200A guitar [message #13490 is a reply to message #13483] Wed, 28 April 2010 16:29   garrym8 Messages: 4 Registered: April 2010 Junior Member yeah i should have made myself a bit more clear.I dont want to drill. There must be a bridge that will fit right on,its just i cant find a bridge that is 3" post to post. Report message to a moderator

Re: I want to replace the bridge on my Kustom K200A guitar [message #13491 is a reply to message #13479] Wed, 28 April 2010 17:22   pleat Messages: 1452 Registered: June 2004 Location: Belding, Mi Senior Member A couple of things come to mind, the guitar not staying in tune, and not being able to intonate. I'd take a good look at the tuners, how many wraps aroung the string post, to many wraps and the string will always go flat as the wrap is always tightning on the post. The Bigsby vibrato spring was designed for standard gauge strings that were common for the era. I am assuming that the bridge you want to replace is indeed original to the guitar. I've owned several of the K200A guitars and never had a problem with the original bridge floating all over the place. Maybe start with stringing the guitar without the vibrato spring so you have a solid anchor at the ball end of the strings. Measure 3/4 inch past the string post and bend a right angle in the string, cut it off so you can insert the string into the string post hole and you should end up with about two complete wraps on the string post. Tune to standard and streach the strings so they remain in tune. Then I would tackle the intonation. I think you may have either machine heads that slip, strings that are over wrapped and the spring in the vibrato all may be contributing the condition and if the spring or poor tuners are the cause, replacing the bridge with a new one won't help. pleat Report message to a moderator

Re: I want to replace the bridge on my Kustom K200A guitar [message #13501 is a reply to message #13371] Fri, 30 April 2010 05:56   stevem Messages: 4733 Registered: June 2004 Location: NY Senior Member The drilling I posted about would need to be done on the new bridge, not on the guitar, and in fact I measured my Rick bridge and its over 3 inches wide. It appers all that would need to be done would be to unscrew the 4 orignal stand off screws and than drill a new hole of the proper size inbetween them to drop the bridge into your factory adjment studs, then new string location grooves may have to be filed into the saddles to get your string spacing back in order which would be a job for a Luther unless you pick up a set of files from Stwart MacDonald. Report message to a moderator

Re: I want to replace the bridge on my Kustom K200A guitar [message #13515 is a reply to message #13501] Sat, 01 May 2010 00:49   garrym8 Messages: 4 Registered: April 2010 Junior Member Hey,thanks for checking that out for me. yeah, I was just looking at photo of the bridge you suggested.I see what you mean, that might work huh, Ill look into it, thanks for caring Report message to a moderator

Re: I want to replace the bridge on my Kustom K200A guitar [message #13525 is a reply to message #13371] Mon, 03 May 2010 05:54   stevem Messages: 4733 Registered: June 2004 Location: NY Senior Member Also note that getting a drill bit started on metal that has been chromed will take a good drill bit! Report message to a moderator

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