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Location: England | Hello all, I'm desperately after a later design all-metal bridge for my Preacher, I've the earlier design with the brass saddles and the black casing around the bottom. I'm willing to pay cash and throw in my bridge as a replacement if anyone has one.
Many thanks,
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Location: NW Washington State | Tristan-
Check with Mr. Ovation or MWoody here; they might have what you need.
I will have a spare sometime in the future but both of my chrome bridges are on guitars right now and I'm in no hurry to take them off.
Why do you need the newer bridge? It looks cool, but mine can be rocked back and forth on their studs, so I've never been impressed by their stability. It also leaves a hole in the back of your guitar if you had the older bridge.
My personal ranking of bridges:
1) the black plastic bridge with brass saddles, screws holding each saddle to the backplate
2) the all-metal bridge
3) the black plastic bridge without screws holding each saddle down; on mine the low E saddle gets out of kilter and doesn't sit flat.
I've never seen the early bridge with the nylon (delrin?) saddles.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Sorry, I'm fresh out...
Have you contacted Customer Service? I've gotten new ones there before.
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Unless it is a cosmetic issue the brass saddle bridge works just fine.
IMHO
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | If you are REALLY set on the chrome look, you could remove the black one and paint it with some good chrome spray paint (depending on your painting ability) |
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Location: England | Thanks guys, I've not yet tried the customer service, I'll give them a go.
The main reason for wanting the newer design bridge is mainly the sustain issue, my friend has a Viper III with the newer design bridge and he's noticed a vast improvement over the plastic bridge.
I do think they also look a lot better, plus the ease of just popping the ball-ends in the bottom come string-change time is a bonus!
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Location: England | I'm still after one of these, I've not had any luck with customer service.
If anyone has a spare that they'd like to sell then please give me a shout.
Thanks guys
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Tristan don't forget you need the posts as well.
There have been a few cheap Vipers on the bay with that bridge.
Might be worth grabbing a complete guitar changing out the bridge and then reselling.
A minor mod to drill a hole for the adjustment screw.
Just a thought
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WTB: Preacher/Viper bridge, late version