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| Hello Welcoming Committee! I've just bought my second Ovation, a 1974 Breadwinner (sent from Finland to my home in London, and in great working order. MY QUERY--REPLACEMENT ALL-METAL BRIDGE FOR MY BREADWINNER I'd like to change the bridge. I really want to find a chrome Schaller/Ovation replacement, having found the pictures on Al's Lost Vintage site (Al has let me know they've all gone!  ). http://www.lostartvintage.com/Categoryinfo.aspx?categoryid=11&categ... Following up from a post from a quarter of a century ago, Miles also let me know he's not got any more, either (understandably)... If there's no news to share on the whereabouts of a Schaller/Ovation upgrade bridge, then second-best, I'm wondering how I'd get hold of the gold metal bridges I can see on later models for sale, which seem to sit inside the same black plastic surrounds--they don't look particularly modern but do look like an upgrade from the plastic-y original (which as I mentioned to Miles looks to me like a set of old man's yellowed teeth). Are these built with the plastic surround inextricably attached, engineered together or does the gold metal part "drop in"? If anyone knows of a type of modern bridge that would fit into the whole cavity space (as the Schaller/Ovation one does--and obviously the originall)--or the space inside the black plastic surround (like the gold ones I see in the '76 models)--that would be great to know. A post was left some time ago on one of your forums, and I cut-and-pasted it out (and now I've lost track of which page/subject it came from! Sorry as this person may be the man to ask...): "if you can't find an original Ovation/Schaller bridge there are other options. The spacing of the bridge posts is identical to those on a Gibson stop-tail. Anything designed to retro-fit a Gibson wrapover-style LP tailpiece, such as a Leo Quan Badass, Trev Wilkinson Bridge & several by Schaller, including a vibrato type, will work. You may have to be a little creative and fill the rout under the original bridge." Anything more to add here? This might help my luthier to further advise me, if the Schaller/Ovation bridge is going to elude me. I am going to hand it over to an amazing luthier team in South London, Feline Guitars--I'm sure they'll find a solution if the OFC can't help me--but hoping you can! Lastly, my Breadwinner pick-up selector toggle switch tip/cover (black plastic/bakellte) has broken into pieces on its way from Finland--looks like I can find a replacement for this part, at least, easy enough (see link below)--but any tips for my search for a tip? https://www.gluedtomusic.com/products/4397/switchcraft-gibson-style-... AND AS TO WHY I'VE SIGNED UP: Reggae superstar Peter Tosh of course played a Breadwinner--I first spotted this guitar watching him play with Bob Marley (on video--unfortunately not in real life!). What an amazing, futuristic shape--I'm sure it influenced the Abasi guitar designers (in a good or a bad way, depending on your taste): https://abasiconcepts.com/en-gb?srsltid=AfmBOoqWyrDZYydFPpPBa51dm9WN... Not really my thing, but my son, 20 (a bit of a virtuoso on guitar--I'm a bit of a hack, if truth be told!). is a massive Abasi fan. He learned guitar, since 8, by playing his teacher's Ovation Celebrity (in the lesson at his teacher's house; we had a cheaper guitar for him but he now has his own Celebrity). So Ovation has always been a thing for him, and me watching him get better and better over the years. Anyway, I got myself a Breadwinner as he loves the design, as (for him) it's a proto-Abasi. And its an Ovation! He'll inherit it one day'; meantime he can borrow it. I want to get it fixed up as a "daily driver" for everyday reliability, no-hassle for rehearsals, recording sessions, gigs--we want it to be the best guitar in our modest stable, his go-to guitar which will never let him down. (The bridge worries me in this regard, not only because it may be the least pretty thing about these early Breadwinners, in my opinion!). If you have any further ideas about upgrades toward a "daily driver" result, let me know. The last owner put in new pick-ups (perhaps sacriligiously)--passive Tonerider Vintage 90B P-90's which sound amazing, better than what comes as stock on my now-heading-toward-second-favourite guitar, the Gibson Les Paul Junior! So they'll probably stay, though I do have all the original pick-ups/electrics in my possession should I opt to change them back. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Al and Miles have already been most helpful, sadly without solution but the search goes on! And the guitar is great to play in the meantime (did I say that already?!). BW, PhillyJohn from London | |||
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