8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
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Re: 8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
Great, as I said, count me in. Thanks, Michael
Re: 8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
I don't see any legal reason why JH has to be consulted on whether or not you can make these. RIC never made these to begin with. As far as improvements go, I set up two of these and found that a couple of the saddles needed to be slotted right on their edges, so location of the saddle screws and/or the widths of some of the saddles needs to be altered from the original design.
Re: 8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
Thanks, Dane. Can you send a picture so I can get an idea of how much adjustment needs done?
Re: 8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
Great news! If another run of these happens, I would be in for one.
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Re: 8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
I doubt if I ever need another bridge, but spare sadles would not hurt..
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Re: 8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
Kevin......When I slot a standard 4-saddle RIC bridge for 8-string use, I space the strings by about 3mm. Given the thickness of the E and A strings, this becomes an issue when slotting your 8-saddle bridges, so you'd need to make the E and A fundamental saddles a bit wider on the bottom, or treble side, and the E and A octave saddles a bit narrower on the upper, or bass side. I think this would be the easiest solution to the problem.
Re: 8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
All: On my Ric 8 String (2000) the spacing seems a bit tight. Sometimes difficult the finger without some of the pairs touching and negating the whole double string effect. Anybody else have this problem? And does 3mm fix that? Michael
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Re: 8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
Count me in as well.
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Or, instead of all that trouble, you could buy a Schaller bridge and put it on a 4004L
Sorry. I just had to do it.
man I love that bass!!Sorry. I just had to do it.
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If I had a 4004/8, I would totally do that. However, since I have a 4003/8...
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... and to think that maybe Chris Squire would have kept his 4008 if he could get his hands on such a bridge.
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If you use the SIT eight string set of strings an eight saddle bridge is not so vital.
The SIT strings intone well and are the correct gauges for a Rickenbacker... I now use them on all of my octave basses...
Eden.
The SIT strings intone well and are the correct gauges for a Rickenbacker... I now use them on all of my octave basses...
Eden.
I confused Faraday's cage, with Schrodinger's cat box....
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Yeah, but I tune my 8 string bass (low to high): cC gG dD aA.
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SITs are nice. I use the D'Addario EXL220 for the fundamental strings and then single strings about half the diameter. this is just about the sames as the SITs I believe. I usually tune to E.
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Re: 8 String Bass Bridges with 8 Saddles
Through Bass Strings Online you can get them made up to any gauge you like..psychomatthias wrote:Yeah, but I tune my 8 string bass (low to high): cC gG dD aA.
I had BEAD sets made up by them..
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