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Post subject: Strings Jumping off Jazzmaster Bridge
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 11:18 pm
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I had converted my new 'Blacktop' Telecaster, with its humbucker pickups, to Baritone (using the heaviest 6 strings of a D'Addario set of Jazz Sevens -- going a full string lower.

Anyway, I wanted to do the same to my Jazzmaster, but I thought it would be a much more complicated job because I would have to reslot the Bridge. But when I unstrung the Jazzmaster and lifted off the Bridge and took a close look at it, well, the Bridge is not really slotted at all -- there are just little shallow "Vees" which position the strings. It is no wonder that it is so easy to knock the strings off a Jazzmaster Bridge!

So I went ahead with the Baritone Operation. I got a very thin Hacksaw Blade, that is, a blade made for cutting metal, and gently sawed square slots in place of the Vees. The thick slots for the fatter strings take a bit more work. I folded sandpaper of various light grades around a thin finger nail file (that I had used up in widening the Nut Grooves) and widened the larger slots in this way. Also, to make sure the grooves were smooth enough to not damage the strings I used folded sandpaper of light grade to smooth and polish the notches.

The Baritone Jazzmaster sounds great, but in regards to just the Bridge -- Now the strings don't jump off the Bridge no matter how rough I play.


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