crusty philtrum
Vintageologist
I remember when these came out in the mid-late 1980s, and always thought it would be ideal to have one on my Telecaster so that I could set it up to switch between, open E, open A and Standard tunings.
http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_list&c=9
The fact that they're still available tells me they must work well, or at least would have been tweaked to ensure that they do the things they're supposed to do.
I'm also interested to know how much they may cause a neck to change with each tuning, and whether it would be better to replace a thinner neck with something with more wood, to cope with the various tensions caused by different tunings.
I may be in a situation where i need various tunings for slide playing, and initially thought about building a dedicated Tele for the Hipshot system. But then it occurred to me that my old 1974 Tele Custom has the (genuine) Widerange humbucker in the neck, and it was always an awesome guitar for slide work. So my thinking now is to fit it with the Trilogy bridge and see how it's reasonably slender neck handles the variations in tension, with the backup plan of fitting a heavier neck if the current one tends to shift around too much.
Has anyone got any experience(s) with these, on Strats or Teles ? Any useful bits of information you could share ?
http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_list&c=9
The fact that they're still available tells me they must work well, or at least would have been tweaked to ensure that they do the things they're supposed to do.
I'm also interested to know how much they may cause a neck to change with each tuning, and whether it would be better to replace a thinner neck with something with more wood, to cope with the various tensions caused by different tunings.
I may be in a situation where i need various tunings for slide playing, and initially thought about building a dedicated Tele for the Hipshot system. But then it occurred to me that my old 1974 Tele Custom has the (genuine) Widerange humbucker in the neck, and it was always an awesome guitar for slide work. So my thinking now is to fit it with the Trilogy bridge and see how it's reasonably slender neck handles the variations in tension, with the backup plan of fitting a heavier neck if the current one tends to shift around too much.
Has anyone got any experience(s) with these, on Strats or Teles ? Any useful bits of information you could share ?
