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February 13, 2008

Westone Spectrum 1A Update « Music/Guitar »

One of the reasons I've considered replacing the Yamaha finger-clamp locking tremolo bridge that the previous axe murderer (so to speak) put in with an extra original Westone Bendmaster I have on hand is that the bridge was sitting about half an inch above the body. I don't know if you can see it in the previous pictures or not.

Now, the alert reader will notice the past tense in the sentence preceding the preceding sentence.

I noticed that the neck attaches to the body at a really steep angle, which causes the bridge to have to be pretty high to clear the pickup rings. There was room to drop it maybe an 8th, probably just a 16th of an inch closer to the fingerboard, but that's about it. But I also noticed a very slight gap between the neck and body in the neck pocket.

So what the heck? I removed the neck, found 2 washers the Axe Murderer used to create that slight gap, and replaced the neck.

After tightening it down good, I think the strings are now about a 1/4 of an inch about the frets at the 22nd fret. I may be exaggerating slightly. Still, I think I can screw in the bridge posts somewhat and end up with a more normally set up guitar.

...I wonder if the Axe Murderer put it up that high for the guitar synth pickup? Dunno.

But with the neck tightened down, it should have better sustain. It already sounded pretty good, this should make it even better. I'm really loving this guitar.

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