TOM tailpeace and break angle

[Sam SG]

So how do you all like your break angle.
Contrary to most synching down the tail. I find i get the best resonant tone with a very shallow break. Atleast on an SG anyway.
I dont have any of the issues people say like strings jumping out of saddles and I think my SGs sound best this way. Been setting um this way for atleast a decade.

Anyone else?
Edit gotta blow up the pic

 

[Chistopher]

I thought reverse wrap was so you could clamp the stop bar all the way down and couple the string vibration to the body better.

A shallower break angle is much more comfortable to rest your hands on.

 

[uOpt]

I put it just low enough that the strings do not touch the edge of the TOM on their way to the saddles.

 

[jeremy]

i do the same. i set the tail piece so the strings do not touch the edge of the bridge. i dont top wrap but have in the past

 

[Mincer]

^Same here. My tailpiece is a TP-6, so no top wrapping. I am not convinced that actually does what people claim it does, anyway.

 

[JMP/HBE]

Ive done up, ive done down & ive done all around.
I always prefer TP all the way to the body.
If your neck angle is correct shouldn't be a problem.
Does not matter in the least if strings touch bridge behind the saddles. Thats a forum myth.

 

[Chistopher]

I always prefer TP all the way to the body.

Yeah thats how everyone uses toilet paper

 

[Señor Verde]

When I had guitars that I couldn't put the TP down without the strings touching the back of the bridge, I topwrapped only because the location of the TP being up for the strings to clear the bridge bugged me. The guitars I own now can have the TP all the way down, but I find it gets a little unclear and dull if they are. I turn the studs up about 1/8 turn and I don't know why, but it sounds better.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I set it as low as it goes before the strings touch the edge of the tune o matic. Tiny 1mm or less gap between the edge of the 6th string and the back end of the bridge.

I've never thought about what it does for the tone, honestly. Maybe I should experiment. I've just always been under the impression that's the way it's supposed to be done for some reason if you want the string to feel a bit stiffer, and I kinda like strings feeling less slinky for aggressive rhythm playing.

I've top wrapped too, but I don't like doing it anymore. If you do it, you kinda have to commit because the strings impress on the tailpiece.

 

[Sam SG]

I clamp a quarter in a pair of vicegrips( diesnt Mar the screw post slot)
Once Ive got my action roughly right I sit and play and tweak my action to perfection and keep tweaking on the tailpeace till it seems to sound were I feel is best it can be. Then I intonate.
They just so happen to land in a shallow break angle on my SGs.
I also topwrap my TOM Charvel and do the same.
Now my el cheapo grande LPish guitar I rear feed the strings, that guitar doesnt have enough break to top wrap even when the tail is synched down. But I think LPs(real ones anyway) have the bridge sit lower than a SG( didnt keep my LP long enough to know) something different in the neck pitch I believe.