Help me for about my 360/12V64 bridge

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carrera1967
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Help me for about my 360/12V64 bridge

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Hello,folks.
Please give me some informations for 360/12V64.
I got used 360/12V64 and found a weird part.
My 360's bridge installed as attached pic.
At an angle facing the pickup.
I have two 325C58 and 325C64 but their bridge installed
horizontally to pickup.
I checked screw hole of plate but it is preexistent,
I mean no modification.
What do you think of this?
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Re: Help me for about my 360/12V64 bridge

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Welcome, Hiroshi. Sadly, your picture isn't showing up. :?
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Re: Help me for about my 360/12V64 bridge

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Oh,really?I can see my pic,anyway thank you.

The situation is that base plate is installed at an angle facing the pickup.
Side of low E is nearer than high E to pickup.
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Re: Help me for about my 360/12V64 bridge

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Sorry.Wrong setup.Can you see pic now?

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One possibility is that the bridge pickup was mounted slightly crooked. Try putting the bridge back on the guitar, strings in place, and measuring the distance from the nut edge (fretboard side) to the edge of the bridge at both the high "E" and low "E" positions. If the distance is the same, then the pickup mounting is crooked by just a bit.

If it turns out that the bridgeplate is crooked, you could adjust the intonation with the bridge saddles to compensate for the slight variance on the bridgeplate.
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Welcome, Hiroshi! :D

Here is the photo. I wouldn't worry about that little bit of non-parallelism. :)
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Re: Help me for about my 360/12V64 bridge

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Thank you for reply.
I checked but the pickup mounting is not crooked.

Some guitars exist like mine?
My guitar is kind of defective ? :cry:
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carrera1967 wrote:Thank you for reply.
I checked but the pickup mounting is not crooked.

Some guitars exist like mine?
My guitar is kind of defective ? :cry:

Not defective......just irregular.

Then again, Rickenbackers have always been irregular. The solution to irregularities is using a robot to assemble the guitars ( NO!! ) :P

That is how you know the guitars are "hand-made." :wink:
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I have seen worse cases than that from the early 80's.
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Now,I understood!
Thank you for informations :D
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