To Flitz or not to Flitz?

[sonicus]

This is the bridge & block with tail piece that was installed on my Guild Starfire around 1975 by Alembic .
 

 
It is an interesting mystery of the cosmos that the tailpiece on my 73-32 is of this type as well .  
 
 Wolf

[flpete1uw]

Ed,
Thank you for your insight and time in explaining. But the picture you were referencing is not mine. It was a bass that was  on the market awhile back that is about has close to mine to make the A/B comparison.  
My bass is the dirty girl here.  
To the best of my knowledge this bridge is the precursor of the modern ones and is fine. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I've had it apart before and, to my knowledge, without any signs of stress.  
Pete

[ed_zeppelin]

Thank you, Wolf. I don't mind being wrong - like I said, we're here to learn - especially because I have a live-in Scottish scorekeeper to keep track of my errors. I should equip the Foghorn with lights, horns and buzzers that go off when I'm wrong. It would sound like a pachinko parlor around here.
 
In my defense, I looked at my Alembic's bridge and did an image search on Alembic Bridge before launching such a barefaced whopper out there into the universe, and even checked the Featured Customs vault, with nary a slanted bridge in sight.
 
All I ask is that you don't tell the Foghorn about this, so it doesn't become part of the litany of my offenses. In return, if you're ever wrong about something I won't immediately leap to expose your error and gloat at your humiliation. (It'll be interesting to find out how much I got right, though.)
 

[flpete1uw]

Ed,
 For whatever it's worth, you appear to be dead on about the bridge damage with regards to the one you pictured.  
Good catch!  
Pete

[sonicus]

Forest ,  I like reading your posts !  
I just like to show examples of discussion topics. I do think that the slanted bridge of tis type was of limited production time. I think it may of been a variation of what in my recollection was refereed to by Alembic as a  channel bridge fabricated from brass stock. The slant was in my recollection an effort to cover a wider area of intonation correction. This is what I recollect .  
 
  Wolf

[ed_zeppelin]

quote:Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Unless you want that sentiment to be the unspoken subtext of your life, don't marry a Scot. They breed them for that. They can smell fear. That's why I happily admit that I can be a moron, just to get it out of the way. All married men do it anyway, whether they want to or not.  
 
Oh that. Yeah, I meant to do that. It just slips out so easily and yet you know it's a lie. If you just admit to it, it barely registers in your married-female counterpart's drama matrix. Life goes on smoothly, secure in the agreement that you're a moron, instead of arguing for hours to reach the same conclusion.
 
quote:Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain
 
Wolf, I think that was my attempt at humor in this vastly inferior medium. I equate it to running out of our houses to stick post-it notes on a big barn. Besides, it turns out that we're discussing a theoretical bass anyway, so as the wisest man who ever lived said when he found his KFC bucket was empty;  
 

quote:No harm, no fowl.

[poor_nigel]

I polish my bridges (And other parts) simply because I like doing it.  I do not pay attention much to either the reasons to polish or not to.  It is just quality time for me and my basses.

[flpete1uw]

Thomas,  
That reason alone is enough for me!  
Pete

[elwoodblue]

Ed Zep,
If you haven't,bookmark this link for interesting  old san fran brass bridge references.
http://www.a6string.net/MI/Hardware/hardware.html