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Other Stuff => Guitars => Topic started by: EL34 on December 18, 2015, 06:07:24 am

Title: Jazz-O-Caster 1 floating bridge mod
Post by: EL34 on December 18, 2015, 06:07:24 am

The evil-lution continues on the Jazz-O-Caster

My previous Jazz-O-Caster mod post are here
http://el34world.com/Forum/index.php?topic=18952.0 (http://el34world.com/Forum/index.php?topic=18952.0)
http://el34world.com/Forum/index.php?topic=19417.0 (http://el34world.com/Forum/index.php?topic=19417.0)

The 2 screw mod I did was a success except that the body wood is so soft in this guitar, all 6 bridge screws were leaning forward towards the neck.
With only two screws left and four removed, the stress on those two screws was intense

The 2 screw mod I did made the bridge float and stay in tune really well.
So I decided to take it one step further
I installed threaded inserts and modified the trem plate so it had knife edges

I cut a but deeper and sharper grooves into the studs to get the bridge to pivot more precisely

Title: Re: Jazz-O-Caster floating bridge mod
Post by: EL34 on December 18, 2015, 06:09:30 am

And here is what it looks like all set up

Title: Re: Jazz-O-Caster floating bridge mod
Post by: EL34 on December 18, 2015, 06:15:08 am

That's probably the last mod I'll do to the original Jazz-O-Caster

And so, with all this modding on this piece of junk guitar, I decided to build a new Jazz-O-Caster from scratch using a nice All Parts body and neck
stay tuned for that build