Stop bar tailpieces - a question?

[DavidRees]

for many years I have been playing a Yamaha MSG. A 25" scale strung with 10s [started with 9s eventually went up to 11s which seemed to choke the guitar, for a year now back with 10s]. The tuneamatic and stop bar tailpiece set up offered the option of stringing through the body 'tele' style in addition to the normal arrangement providing a little more tension I guess and that's the way I've always played it.
I was wondering what would be the other advantages with this approach? No one else with the tuneamatic and stopbar tailpiece seem to offer this approach and that includes Martyn Booth who designed the MSG and does not offer the 'string through' option on any of his current guitars - I am going to try the normal method of stringing for a change but any views and opinions would be much appreciated
regards and thank you David

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Stop bar tailpieces - a question?

The Yamaha MSG is a co-design between Yamaha and Booth in much the same way as the YSG was a co-design between Yamaha and Paul Reed Smith. It is sometimes difficult to tell whose ideas are which?

In my opinion, the idea of passing a guitar string over a saddle, around a stopbar tailpiece and through the body to an anchoring ferrule is one bend too many. Perhaps, Yamaha intended one form of stringing or another but not both?

Quite a few guitars aimed at the Hard Rock fraternity now employ a T-O-M bridge and through body stringing. It is possible that Yamaha intended that the stopbar tailpiece should be removed when stringing through.

 

[DavidRees]

Re: Stop bar tailpieces - a question?

Funkfingers
thanks for your reply - the MSGs tailpiece is a weird beast in that it routes the string at right angles if going through body but differently [sort of lying across the top with a notch at the end] if going normal - it does mean you need an extra hand to hold the strings in the tailpiece whilst restringing [or restring one at a time]
David

 

[astrozombie]

Re: Stop bar tailpieces - a question?

id go through body if the angles dont feel dangerous, tension=easier bends (easier to get to the note) i gotta have that on my axes.

 

[DavidRees]

Re: Stop bar tailpieces - a question?

any more comments/observations?
thanks David