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Chicago on the return leg?

Where on God's green earth did whoever did the Lennon mods to this get a comp'd LEFTY bigsby dog-bone bridge???

I went through hoops to borrow a righty one to measure it, reverse engineer it, make a cad model and get one machined from billet! :oops:

The guy who did the machining did 5 as the ...

I'm pretty sure he used something along the lines of a "Saddleboy" It's a pop in lefty intonated saddle to convert a righty to lefty. It's pretty clear in several photos of his Texan. I'll see if I can find a link.

Here's some photos. Scroll down and you can see the saddle gizmo:

http://www ...

Before anyone says anything, I did offer Peter a chair!

I'll jump in and say it was a great pleasure to host 2 lefties at my place, although the time flew past much to quickly. This marks the first time I've seen 3 lefties (including my wife who is the player in the house)at one time. I must say (sorry Ted :-)) it was kind of neat to see a righty holding ...

So, Peter,

How was your visit?

To bad you can't fly in on Friday; I'd love to have you out to the toybox!

Our evening is going to be at the Brian Setzer show; what time do you arrive? Maybe a daytime hook-up? The toybox link below...

http://community.webshots.com/user/jwallace1963-reg

Did anyone ever consider that a lot of folks tend to use ebay as a guide to the value of objects?

I think that GC would love to have folks see guitars being listed at a high price on ebay, but able to be bought for a more "reasonable" price "in the store". This way folks think, "what a great deal ...

Thanks, gents.

I really wanted to link to this:

http://community.webshots.com/user/jwallace1963

but webshots is blocked at work. The Ric is a newer addition, and the guitars are actually my wife's.

Sorry there is only one Ric, but it is a 12 string in keeping with the thread topic!



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