i voted hardtail, i like the snap and immediacy. actually i don't even have one, mine isn't StringThruBody like the old hardtail Strats and new teles, it's 50s style toploader, but close enoigh.
i do like the hollowbodies with the tailpeices though, i think that length of string behind the bridge does something to the sound.
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I can't give you a too detailed answer cause I'm not EXACTLY sure. But I know that it works by using a knife edge system with rollers in the bridge that would fall out when he broke, or breaks even, a string.Tsuken wrote:How does the "roller bridge" on the Red Special work?
These might give you a bit of a better idea.
Obviously the strings weren't strung through body, and the bridge itself from what i've read was very good at keeping the guitar in tune.
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That is seriously one of the coolest guitars ever. Its shape is unlike anything else, but it's just so cool. Brian's my hero
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When I was in Chch there was this photographer that my father knew, he was dissappearing overseas for a couple of months I think so he let me look after his guitar gear.Tsuken wrote:That is seriously one of the coolest guitars ever. Its shape is unlike anything else, but it's just so cool. Brian's my hero
It was the complettete Brian May setup..
Custom guitar, Vox amp and a curly cable...
Did I make some loud noise with that...
Interesting guitar to figure out thats for sure!!!!
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Ooh ... I'm so envious. grrr
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I f i was an angry man i would have broken something then, thats very very cool. I like the guitar its not to hard to figure out if you know what the controls are for. I've never had it go silent on stage by flicking all the pickups off.
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Yeah it is the same type that you get on RG270 - it is a first generation Floyd Rose style bridge / single locking. It stays in tune pretty well and is pretty fine for whammy action (was using it when jamming drummer on the weekend).Visionless_Guitarist wrote:yea string changing sux on floyds, i change each string 1 by 1, and tune them, then after the next string id make sure all the new strings are in tune, so yea i kinda got it sussed, speed things up a lil, probaly could change the oil in your car quicker TMG.
offender, you have a single locking floyd rose, they are also on the ibanez RG270's, older models now, apparently they dont dive bomb and all that whammy bar stuff as accurate as a double locking, the dude in the shop was probaly just trying to sell me the RG470 tho.
cheers BG for fixing that up, i probaly was doing sumthing cabbage, but i dno, maybe the gremlins have been in.
I don't know how to divebomb so can't comment on that!
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