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2 Bridge Pin Questions
Hello and thanks in advance for all replies.
1- While restringing a guitar today that I seldom play or restring, I noticed that the bridge has been slotted but it also has slotted pins. Is this OK? If not, why not? 2- When restringing do you put the pins back in order to the hole they came out of? Is this a good thing or just silly? The guitar is an Ibanez AC240 and the bridge was slotted at the first set-up years ago. The pins are stock Ibanez black plastic. |
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Usually slotted on one not the other, in other words, if the pins are slotted, the bridge isn't and vice versa.
If the bridge is slotted, just turn the pins so the slot is away from the bridge. As far as which holes each pin goes into, it shouldn't matter, but sometimes you'll notice that pins ride high or low in different holes. If that's the case, just keep them in order. it's not a big deal if that happens. |
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It's OK to have slotted pins and slotted holes, just turn the pins so the slot faces away from the saddle.
Some guitars have the pins individually fitted, and the pins do need to go back into the same holes. That's pretty unusual, most pins are interchangeable.
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Are the holes slotted, or just ramped? It seems common to ramp the holes, which controls break angle. Slots go all the way down through the bridge plate. If slotted, it makes sense to turn the pins around, as already mentioned. It seems that slotted holes coupled with a slotted pins would invite the ball ends to dig into the bridge plate even more than slotted pins alone. Just speculating, not a tech.
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Upon further review, no, just the top of the holes are slotted and out about 1/4" on to the top of the bridge. Yes now I remember this was done with the new saddle to improve break angle. Case closed. |
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If the pins are of a natural material such as bone there could be some variability, and holes on hand built guitars are not necessarily all the same diameter either. With my custom shop guitar, I once removed all strings at the same time and then mixed and matched the bone pins and as a result some pins were quite lose and I was worried they pop out. Next time I tried to find the best pairing between pins and holes, and from then on I just change the strings one at a time so each pin goes back into its matched hole. But with plastic pins and guitars that come from assembly lines there is probably less variance.
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I always put the pins in the same holes......and just as certainly as I always do that, I'm just as certain it doesn't matter - but my habit remains none the less.....
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As for your second question, I've not paid attention to which bridge pins go where. Two guitars are reamed for common size 1 pins; a third will be shortly. It hasn't seemed to matter at all, before or after reaming. |
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Easy I use a black marker on my Gibson pins and put very small number of black marker dots on the side according to the string number . For black ones very small silver ones with a Sharpie . You can't see them above the bridge
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