http://www.guitarfetish.com...

Wondering if it would fit my Pro-Jet.

I still have one lying around the house somewhere. It doesn't work well with a floating bridge but it might be a winner for a fixed one. The quality is good. Mine is in mint condition and you can have it if you want and pay only the post and paypal cost. Just send me a PM.

Tone and sustain sucking rattle trap. Don't do it. A bridge very similar to that came on the pre FMIC Jets (and maybe some others). I dumped mine in favor of a Tru Arc™, but really any bar bridge or non rolling ABR type bridge would be far better.

Hmmm.... well now what?

I have one on my Aria Pro II hollowbody (with a floating bridge) and I don't have as much problem with it as Bonedaddy had with his. It replaces a non-roller bridge that was OK, but didn't always play nicely with the Bigsby. It does rattle from time to time, but a quick tightening of the screws usually ends that. I use flatwounds and I'm not looking for a lot of sustain. I'm not much of a tone hound, but it sounds OK to me. I will say that I would love to put a Tru-Arc on the guitar, but at four times the cost it won't happen any time soon. The GFS is not a spectacular bridge, but, for the money I don't have any big gripes with it.

Money wasting gimmick. Plus if you play hard you might have the E string popping out of the saddles as the roller grooves are all the same size and not made to fit each string size from large to small. Just look at the photo and you'll see what I mean. If you want an adjustable bridge (TOM type) get a good quality one without the rattly retainer wire. My 2c.

ahh another roller-skate bridge question.. how about peeking at this thread with Judd and I making fun of the roller-skate John wanted..

http://gretschpages.com/for...

Hmmm.... well now what?

This roller bridge generally gets good reviews:

Wilkinson Locking Roller Bridge

Say what you will about roller bridges but I've had no complaints about the Roll-o-Matic that came stock on my M-77T.

Hmmm.... well now what?

This roller bridge generally gets good reviews:

Wilkinson Locking Roller Bridge

That's the one I tried on my old 5120. It sucked major wind. Since all the roller's grooves are the same size, the E string popped out of the saddle regularly.

My Falcon came with this ABM 2400 on it and the only thing I had to do to it was round off the sharp corners a bit where it dug into my palm.

(brand new, they're around $140)

YEP!!! If you play live and you are jumping back and forth between flatpick and travis picking the stupid E string is always falling out, how can it not. There is a generic slot the string is sitting in, or rather a "Channel" because its so big.

There is absolutely positively no reason to have a buick grill of a bridge sitting on your guitar with wheels when you can take the guitar down to a good shop to reslot your nut or cut a new one (btw.. Setzer has tom jones put a sharp angle on the nut for a minimal contact surface at the delrin nut he uses). Those saddle slots on the abr-1 bridge have to be nice and clean too..but it is a well oiled machine when done right.. and if your abr-1 is a rattler, I posted that solution above.

ps. a tru-arc bar bridge with a bit of murrays pomade in the slots is as slippery as a sea lion on ice, if you are cool with non adjustable intonation.

btw.. tonepros even makes the AVR2 with nylon saddles if you want to be greased up and shoved down a slip n slide

http://www.darrenriley.com/...

Think I have both of the first two floating around the parts bin, first one was pretty poor, the second one (the Wilko) was much better, but still not as good as I expected - is OK on non bigsby'd guitar though. Actually, very nice. Which I'm sure wasn't the point of the design.

All right so I use the bar with some restraint and I don't like my stock bridge on the 5120, it just seems cheap and I cant imagine the strings dont bind in the saddles. I am unsure how a flat bar like a Tru Arc can intonate properly since you can't adjust individual strings ?

My .02... I've come to the conclusion that roller bridges are a over-complicated non-solution to a misdiagnosed problem. One of my Bigsby guitars has one, the other has a bar bridge. Guess which one stays in tune better? Judicious lubing of the nut and bridge slots will do far more for tuning stability than a roller bridge, without the severe tonal/sustain compromise. As for intonation, I'm using 11's with the bar bridge and it's spot-on; I will say that lighter strings and high action can be an issue though.

Tru-Arc on mine is fine------

I have one of these lying around somewhere too! I used it for about a month or so and dropped it like a bad habit. I did try a Tru-Arc..sounds good but couldn't get along with the intonation compromise. I did install a TonePros roller bridge and it works great!

UD (Uncle Don)

I had one on my Ibanez for years and it worked fine if you clean it once in awhile with a little WD40 to make sure the rollers aren't stuck. They do rob you of a little sustain, but it is very minor.

When I swapped bridges on my Ibby, I gave it to somebody here on The Pages. I wouldn't mind having another one.

You say Potato and I say Potato In my town women are like buses.

I use Schaller roller bridges. Never had problems with them and you can adjust the string spacing too.