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Post subject: Bridge cover
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:57 am
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Hello, a gift for my 50s Strat, bridge cover!
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Do not play with but very nice once the guitar at rest!

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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:59 am
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Sorry to disappoint you but I never liked the look of those and I don't like the feel when playing.
The most important thing is that you(!) like it on your guitar.
Enjoy it! :)

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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:11 am
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This element is not required, but Leo Fender had created!
this is a tribute to Mr Fender!

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Post subject: Re: Bridge cover
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:58 am
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Where did you get that, looks kinda cool!


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Post subject: Re: Bridge cover
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:44 pm
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Yeah I have one for my Daphne Blue strat, don't play with it on, but looks nice when it is on.

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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:51 pm
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I have a Strat thats that color, it looks super clean with it on. What is it like to play with it installed? I know I have to remove my Telecaster's guard when I play it because it annoys me!


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Post subject: Re: Bridge cover
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:12 pm
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BrittB wrote:
I have a Strat thats that color, it looks super clean with it on. What is it like to play with it installed? I know I have to remove my Telecaster's guard when I play it because it annoys me!


Same with the strat!

It's annoying!

At least in my case because I'm not shrumming campfire songs.
I need a certain distance between strings/bridge and palm of my hand for best possible picking control. With the cover on, distance as well as the angle of my wrist are uncomfortable!

With the cover on, it's impossible to play palm mutes correctly, if at all, which to me is the most important negative aspect. Very few songs at all, in which I don't play palm mutes in some way or at least let a note/chord ring for a very short moment and then stop it with my palm. It's part of my style.

A bridge cover of this kind would - if it reaches my home at all and doesn't find it's way through my car's window on the way home - IMMEDIATELY get lost in the guitar case and would NEVER EVER see sunlight again until I sell the guitar again or discard it after being destroyed in an accident.

To me, these covers are the most useless guitar part ever invented, they even aren't useful as ashtray!

But that's just my very personal opinion about them. :wink: :oops:

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Post subject: Re: Bridge cover
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:22 pm
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Yeah you can't palm mute with it on at all.

When I first got it I played with it on for awhile, played fine except for the palm muting, but after a while it started to rattle a little, I think it stretched out and got a little looser and then started to rattle, so I took it off.

Now I just put it on for pictures lol.


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Post subject: Re: Bridge cover
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:31 pm
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So it's just like the Tele version. I put it on when it's stored hanging on the wall but when it's play time, off it comes. It's something I'd install on a seldom used Strat wall hanger.


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Post subject: Re: Bridge cover
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:35 pm
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JasonSD wrote:
Yeah you can't palm mute with it on at all.


Precisely.

But with the cover in place it's readily apparent to all who truly know the Stratocaster that the instrument is equipped with the authentic Strat bridge as designed by Leo Fender -- not that blasphemous 2-point piece of crap or the equally heretical vintage-style "mini-bridge" initially produced for the cheap off-shore imports from Squire.

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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:48 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
JasonSD wrote:
Yeah you can't palm mute with it on at all.


Precisely.

But with the cover in place it's readily apparent to all who truly know the Stratocaster that the instrument is equipped with the authentic Strat bridge as designed by Leo Fender

Arjay


Doesn't make a difference to me, Arjay.
It could be filed out by hand out of a 50 cubic foot block of steel by the Queen of Great Britain herself, it's still useless and disturbing to me. :lol:

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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 3:04 pm
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But of course.

Hottentots seldom have a grasp of or an appreciation for history.

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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 3:44 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
But of course.

Hottentots seldom have a grasp of or an appreciation for history.

:roll:

Arjay


Hottentots!

Well, thank you ..... I think? :lol:
Even though I should be offended, I rather take it as a joke, because I fail to see a reference between hottentots and Germans and/or my skin color. :lol:

Hottentots is a vintage (to stay in guitar language) term used a couple of centuries ago. It was used by German colonialists who lived amongst their African servants in colonized countries in Africa. They called them hottentots.
Today it is considered a rude offense against people with African ancestry and derivation.
It is used in the same manner as ni**er.

A derived but incorrect coloquial use nowadays is in the meaning of confused, senseless, without order ....

I can, by all means, absolutely NOT imagine, that you meant it that way.
Even though there's no other meaning I know of, I simply choose to think that you made a funny one up in your mind without telling anybody. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Bridge cover
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 6:12 pm
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I like the look of mine. It finishes off my MIM build nicely.

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They help to keep the dust off and add a certain elegance. If you don't like to play with it on, then take it off. It's not hard.
I assume most people take their guitar out of it's case before playing it. No different.
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:08 pm
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Looks nice, but hard to palm mute....

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