Members thevoice Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 Hey all, I ordered an L.R. Baggs T-Bridge from StewMac for a project involving my Epiphone G310 but I didn't realize at the time that there are different sizes for the bridge pins on which the bridge sits. My Epi has larger radius pins than the holes in the T-Bridge and the pins provided with the T-Bridge do not fit in to the threaded holes on the guitar body where the existing pins are. My question is, is there any way I can use this bridge with this guitar? Does anyone sell smaller radius pins that fit in to the larger threaded holes on the Epiphone? The pin spacing lines up perfectly.. it's just the size of the pins holding me back. Does anyone have any ideas? or am I SOL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thevoice Posted October 11, 2005 Author Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 Sorry, I'm a little tired, I meant "bridge posts" everywhere I said "bridge pins", but I'm sure most of you figured that out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members _pete_ Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 Did the new bridge come with threaded inserts fot the bridge posts? If so, you just have to pull out the old inserts in press in the new. They don't fit because Epi uses metric threads instead of SAE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pipedwho Posted October 11, 2005 Members Share Posted October 11, 2005 Try these conversion posts from Stewart Macdonald (and probably elsewhere).I was going to get the LR Baggs, but because they only came with the smaller post holes I had to go with the Graphtechs (which have a version just about every possible guitar bridge out there).I thought about the conversion posts for mine, but they didn't come in gold, so I went with the Graphtechs.If yours is silver/chrome/nickel the above should do the trick. (You should also double check the post hole separation/width too, because it is VERY hard to change that).You can see what I had to go through to get mine installed here. It would have been so much easier if either LR Baggs came with larger metric posts or if the Graphtech saddles were conductive. Anyway, I'm very happy with the results. cheers,pw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thevoice Posted October 12, 2005 Author Members Share Posted October 12, 2005 There are inserts for the new bridge, but the holes from my current inserts are way too big for those ones to fit since it uses the large posts. I think I'm going to have to go with the conversion posts, or return this system and get the graphtech one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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