dawson
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So, lucky guy I am, I got all sorts of birds stoned at once by machining this bridge with a CNC mill at my local junior college:
It's a floating tremolo with a big handle on the back that's easy to grab onto or push down on without a 'whammy bar' isn't installed, designed to operate like the custom bridge that Isaac Brock uses in Modest Mouse.
The machined piece screws onto the original die-cast block and uses new Fender saddles.
The prototype was drawn in Fusion 360 and cut out on a manual mill first- I've shared pics of that one before:
Since the prototype worked so well, I wanted another one for my main player, a Reverend Descent baritone.
I re-drew the design and routed the toolpaths in my Mastercam class, then cut it out with a CNC mill in another lab class. A couple final operations were finished on a manual mill, and then I had to get in with my rotary tool and fine-tune the angle where the plate meets the little bracing-poles.
In order to get the intonation right, I had to remove a bit of material from one of the saddles.
Anyhow, in conclusion- after a considerable amount of fine-tuning, it works and feels really great!
Thanks for looking!
![lYnDSXn.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lYnDSXn.jpg?1)
![i9GmxEZ.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/i9GmxEZ.jpg)
It's a floating tremolo with a big handle on the back that's easy to grab onto or push down on without a 'whammy bar' isn't installed, designed to operate like the custom bridge that Isaac Brock uses in Modest Mouse.
The machined piece screws onto the original die-cast block and uses new Fender saddles.
The prototype was drawn in Fusion 360 and cut out on a manual mill first- I've shared pics of that one before:
![VUCUfXA.jpg VUCUfXA.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VUCUfXA.jpg)
![81k4osT.jpg 81k4osT.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/81k4osT.jpg)
Since the prototype worked so well, I wanted another one for my main player, a Reverend Descent baritone.
I re-drew the design and routed the toolpaths in my Mastercam class, then cut it out with a CNC mill in another lab class. A couple final operations were finished on a manual mill, and then I had to get in with my rotary tool and fine-tune the angle where the plate meets the little bracing-poles.
In order to get the intonation right, I had to remove a bit of material from one of the saddles.
![QXJTQvv.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QXJTQvv.jpg)
![JpytuO4.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/JpytuO4.jpg)
![sh4i38B.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/sh4i38B.jpg)
Anyhow, in conclusion- after a considerable amount of fine-tuning, it works and feels really great!
Thanks for looking!