Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

[sweet_lou]

I just came accross this on Ebay. What can you tell me about it?
What else would you recomend?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41407&item=3742037637&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[Jeff_H]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

Lou,

I've read a bunch of posts over at the Fender Forum where folks are saying that brass is a tone sucking metal, really makes things dull and lifeless. I think some of that would have to be taken with a grain of salt, because if you had a super bright strat that might be just the ticket.

My favorite strat bridges are built by Callaham. IMO he is making the finest product on the market. He has a new hardtail bridge that I believe is around $50. That's what I would recommend. Here's a link.

https://www.callahamguitars.com

[sweet_lou]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

Lou,

I've read a bunch of posts over at the Fender Forum where folks are saying that brass is a tone sucking metal, really makes things dull and lifeless. I think some of that would have to be taken with a grain of salt, because if you had a super bright strat that might be just the ticket.

My favorite strat bridges are built by Callaham. IMO he is making the finest product on the market. He has a new hardtail bridge that I believe is around $50. That's what I would recommend. Here's a link.

www.callahamguitars.com

Thanks. It makes sense I would think Brass would be softer
than steel or whatever.

I just checked out the Callaham site thanks.
I am tempted to go with gold but I heard it oxidizes easily.

[mrid]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

Hipshot makes the best hardtail brass bridge. It's machined from a solid brass billet with steel saddles.

[ArtieToo]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

My favorite strat bridges are built by Callaham. IMO he is making the finest product on the market. He has a new hardtail bridge that I believe is around $50. That's what I would recommend. Here's a link.

www.callahamguitars.com

It interesting that so many of his parts are cryogenically treated, including 5-way switches and "vintage" cloth wire. I wonder what the benefit of that is supposed to be.

[Jeff_H]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

There's a blurp somewhere on his page that says why he does that. Less resistance, more energy transfer, something like that. I don't know enough about that stuff to really say, but I do know that he builds some of the best stuff on the market. Once you try his 64' trem arm, you'll never use another strat style arm.

I'm going to use his entire bridge assembly kit on my new strat.

[ArtieToo]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

Cool . . . I'll go back and look. (Heh - no pun intended.)

[ArtieToo]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

You know, this guy sounds like someone who is completely reputable and honest . . .

. . . and yet, I have a hard time swallowing this:

We do hear a significant improvement when treatment is done to pickups, switches, jacks, wire, and electronic components. The consenses is that the signal is stronger which helps with low output pickups. There is a definite increase in speed of the response time. We can measure an 18 percent increase in output with an overall warming, smoother sound from a wiring harness. All our guitars are now supplied with cryo-treat pickups, wire, jacks, and switches because of these findings.

I'm not saying its not true, just that I have a hard time believing that freezing a wire will make it "sound" better.

Edit: As someone who works in a Navy cal lab, and who uses liquid nitrogen daily, I can see another "test" is on the horizon.

[Jeff_H]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

Yeah...he comes about as highly recommended for strat parts as anyone, but I don't know how much I buy into the cryo treatment. I know they make those cryo treated guitar strings, but I can't remember ever trying them.

I don't understand enough about that stuff to know if freezing that stuff once makes a difference for it's lifetime. Go freeze some crap for us and let us know how it turns out!

[ArtieToo]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

Yeah...he comes about as highly recommended for strat parts as anyone, but I don't know how much I buy into the cryo treatment. I know they make those cryo treated guitar strings, but I can't remember ever trying them.

I don't understand enough about that stuff to know if freezing that stuff once makes a difference for it's lifetime. Go freeze some crap for us and let us know how it turns out!

Yeah, I'm trying to decide how, and what, to test. I suppose I could just measure the resistance of a length of wire, before and after soaking in LN2.

Trouble is, I don't know how they treat theirs. Like how long do they freeze the item?

[That90'sGuy]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

On the subject of Callaham, I ordered a steel trem block for my Gotoh 1088 vintage trem. I love it! It definitely makes my strat sound more alive. More jangle, more sustain... it really does make a difference! I highly recommend it to anyone who loves the guitar they have and wish to hotrod it to sound to it's fullest potential.

[aleclee]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

I've read a bunch of posts over at the Fender Forum where folks are saying that brass is a tone sucking metal, really makes things dull and lifeless. I think some of that would have to be taken with a grain of salt, because if you had a super bright strat that might be just the ticket.

Interesting assertion. I dunno if I buy it--after all, they make bells out of brass. You might not appreciate the effect but it definitely resonates...probably better than most iron-based alloys.

[mrid]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

Interesting assertion. I dunno if I buy it--after all, they make bells out of brass. You might not appreciate the effect but it definitely resonates...probably better than most iron-based alloys.

How dare you question the FDP!

[aleclee]

Re: Anyone heard of brass Hradtail bridge

How dare you question the FDP!

Yeah. They're prolly gonna declare me unworthy of my Affinity Strat.