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Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on February 13, 2013, 06:49:15 PM: I am looking for a vintage 60's Gibson EB0 or Melody Maker Bass bridge screw and/or saddle like the one in the photograph. These are not the same as the later ones you can now buy from Allparts, etc. They have a narrower shoulder where they drop into the bridge and the saddle is different. All I need is one, and I am even interested in just the screw if that is all I can find. Thanks, Dave
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Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: onnob on February 15, 2013, 09:04:08 AM: This seems not to be the original bridge for the eb0 gibson. The original bridge is one standing on two posts, and no adjustable sadles, but a fixed bridge. Later (1965? and further) they used a three pole bridge.
I know so well, because I'm searching for this two pole bridge for my '62 eb0. I can't use the three pole one, because this bass has the additional muting device underneath the bridge. Anyone suggestions where to become one? These things are hard to find in the Netherlands......

thanks for reading,

Onno
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: hieronymous on February 15, 2013, 10:17:06 AM: No, this is original - they switched to these late 1967, then switched to the three-point around 1973 (I can't take credit for this info - it is available at Fly Guitars (http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/EB0.php target=_blank)). I have had three Gibsons with this kind of bridge (affectionately known at the Last Bass Outpost (http://www.bassoutpost.com/ target=_blank) as the Evertilt) - a '68 EB-2, '68 Melody Maker Bass, and early-'70s Les Paul Triumph.

In connection with the Les Paul, it was missing one of the original saddles, so I ended up buying a bridge off of eBay, which I still have. Dave, if I can find it, I will hook you up! Problem is finding it...
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on February 15, 2013, 01:43:06 PM: Please do!!! Yes, it is from a 68 Melody Maker bass! All it needs is the one missing screw and saddle.

Thanks
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: hieronymous on February 15, 2013, 04:06:25 PM: I will look - it's either going to be easy to find or next to impossible - if you saw my house you would understand!

Which string's saddle do you need?
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on February 15, 2013, 07:15:26 PM: Love them nylon saddles! Friend of mine used to have '53 Les Paul set up with an ES-330 style trapeze & a Tune-A-Matic with nylon; another had a '59 330 with them; 2 of the sweetest-sounding guitars I've ever known!

Peter (who would love to find a source for them to fit an early-90's Sheraton)
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on February 15, 2013, 09:19:02 PM: The most narrow one is missing. Probably either of the two smallest would fill the bill if you did not have the narrow one.

Thanks so much!
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: hieronymous on February 18, 2013, 04:29:47 PM: Dave, I'm sorry but the bridge didn't turn up on a cursory inspection. But a long overdue room cleaning has begun, so the search continues! If you get a lead on one from another source by all means jump on it - I can't guarantee that I will find mine...
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: pauldo on February 18, 2013, 05:26:28 PM: Should be able to have someone with minimal machining skills fab up a new one pretty easily.

Dave, If you are anywhere near Milwaukee let me know, we could hook you up.
:-D
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on February 18, 2013, 06:17:25 PM: Thank you but I am too far away. I could make the saddle, but the screw is an odd one. Maybe the room cleaning will turn it up or maybe EBay.

My house has too much stuff tucked away, so I know the feeling!!!
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on February 18, 2013, 06:18:44 PM: Thank you but I am too far away. I could make the saddle, but the screw is an odd one. Maybe the room cleaning will turn it up or maybe EBay.

My house has too much stuff tucked away, so I know the feeling!!!

Thank you all so far!
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on February 20, 2013, 01:01:49 PM: Hieronymous, my Gibson Melody Maker bass looks just like yours! I tried to download your songs from an 1997 post on here, but they quit part way through.

The serial number on my bass comes out to a 1968 model but the original pots date code to 30th week of 1966.
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Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: hieronymous on February 20, 2013, 02:40:43 PM: Wow, they definitely look alike! I never checked the pots on mine but the serial looked to be about '68.

I have a couple of the tracks I recorded with it on soundcloud:

http://soundcloud.com/hieronymous-seven/over-there (http://soundcloud.com/hieronymous-seven/over-there target=_blank)

http://soundcloud.com/hieronymous-seven/terminous (http://soundcloud.com/hieronymous-seven/terminous target=_blank)

I never recorded it clean - for me, the mudbucker was for fuzz & effects! The first track is with a bunch of different distortions (Fulltone Bass Drive, Hao Rust Drive, Z Vex Woolly Mammoth), the second is Woolly Mammoth through Moogerfooger Low Pass Filter.

I finally sold mine - well, traded it in a few months ago for my Fender Duck Dunn Signature P-Bass. The Melody Maker served me well - I bought it in Japan - and I lost money on it but still think I got more money from GC than I would have in a private sale.
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on March 17, 2013, 04:24:26 PM: Still looking for a bass saddle for this one!
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on November 04, 2013, 08:07:23 PM: Still looking!
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: sonicus on November 04, 2013, 08:24:44 PM: Hi
Go to eBay and log in a search with notifications . I see this gibson bridge type on ebay very often . Ebay will send you an email when the specimen that you desire shows up !
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on November 06, 2013, 10:12:20 AM: Yes, I check EBay every day. The whole bridge assembly seems to sell for around $175, which is too much when I just need the one screw and saddle.

I can't play the bass as it is.
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: hieronymous on November 06, 2013, 04:33:32 PM: Dave, I'm so sorry, I haven't been able to find mine.
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on November 06, 2013, 08:03:44 PM: I thank you so much for looking!!!
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 06, 2013, 08:54:14 PM: Buy a piece of nylon 6/6 and cut your own.

Peter
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: hieronymous on November 07, 2013, 10:47:18 AM: He needs the screw as well
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on March 15, 2014, 12:46:57 PM: Still hoping to find one!
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: poor_nigel on March 15, 2014, 01:28:50 PM: I saw one of these on eBay a few years ago and it included the posts and holders that go into the bass for $50. So I bought it, as I have several old Gibsons that use em. You are looking for a shorter saddle and saddle screw, yes? E-mail me your shipping address and it is yours, next time I go to post something. Nerf! Sorry I do not come read stuff very often, anymore.
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: poor_nigel on March 15, 2014, 01:36:55 PM: Are you looking to replace the E string one, or E and G? Mine are stock, so do not have grooves filed into them. Best to explain things simply to me, as I am pretty dumb. Did you file the E one down, as it was a 'middle' one/taller one?
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: poor_nigel on March 15, 2014, 02:03:05 PM: Opps, I misspoke myself, like a true politician. These did come with grooves. I found four saddles, all the same size (Told ya I was dumb these daze), grooved from E to G size. Found three screws in a box with a complete set of LP Triumph guts I bought just for the pick-up rings a decade or so ago. So all I need is your address and you should be good to go in a week or so.
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: poor_nigel on March 15, 2014, 02:48:09 PM: http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/parts/bridge/#24

OK, typical Gibson consistency in the products over any given time span, no matter how short the duration . . . The picture seems to show un-grooved saddles, and it might just be the angle, but on the two saddles/screws by themselves in the picture, one looks taller/thicker on the shoulders than the other - As I seem to remember. My basses are put away in their closet, so too much of a hassle for me to check this out on. OK, I will shut up and go away now.
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on March 16, 2014, 10:56:21 AM: Now that's a handy web site! Yes, that earlist bridge is the one, with those nylon saddles. What a goofy design that bridge is!
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: gtrguy on March 24, 2014, 11:14:53 AM: Thanks to poor nigel I now have the part I am looking for!!!!!
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: poor_nigel on March 24, 2014, 09:07:46 PM: Good. If ya see someone on here looking for something you have an extra of, 'pay it forward.' Never saw the movie, but I liked the concept advertised in its commercials . . .
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: poor_nigel on March 24, 2014, 09:07:55 PM: Good. If ya see someone on here looking for something you have an extra of, 'pay it forward.' Never saw the movie, but I liked the concept advertised in its commercials . . .
Title: Wanted: old Gibson bass bridge screw and saddle
Post by: hieronymous on March 27, 2014, 11:52:01 AM: Great! My bridge still hasn't turned up so I'm glad you were able to get what you needed.