Slotted bridge plate

harvey49 · Post by **harvey49** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:42 pm

Being a new comer to this forum, from the land of Aus,(tralia), I'm keen to get the best tone and tuning out of my 360/12v64. Have had great help on specific points, but now I want to improve set up, (have tried a private post - but think I've worn out my welcome.)

A lots be written in the past about intonation problems with this guitar. On searching through for answers I noticed a slotted baseplate was now being offered by Rickenbacker. Has anyone bought one and recommends doing so? Like many other people I'm not keen to drill holes in the body even if they will be hidden by a repositioned bridgeplate. Now here's where I show some ignorance, If you can intonate all strings by removing springs from the bridge and have the saddles hard back, why is it an advantage to shift the bridgeplate, put the springs back and have the saddles intonated at roughly the centre of the bridge? Just so the load on the four bridge height screws are evenly loaded? And to stir up the 6 saddle 12 saddle issue has this really been resolved yet?

Cheers

Ron

admin · Post by **admin** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:37 am

Ron: The benefit of the slotted bridgeplate is that it allows you to intontate your guitar, while at the same time provides some additional room to move the saddles as the instrument is affected by climatic changes. You can't have this flexibility if your saddles are all the way back and need to go further at some point.

Also, the springs do hold the saddle in place and stop rattle to some extent.

I have the slotted bridgeplate on my Rickenbacker 12 string and it works very well. It was a great idea.

harvey49 · Post by **harvey49** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:06 pm

Thanks for the feedback Peter BTW have nearly finished my custom tailpiece for the 360/12v64 interested in look at it?