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Fretless bridge for fretted bass


Sambrook
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I've been looking at Dominique Di Piazza's bridge, fitted with wooden saddles to give his fretted bass a wonderful Fretless tone.
I want to build one for myself. If anyone has any info/advice/warning, I'd be very grateful. Cheers...

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What bass are you planning to fit it on? I would start with BBOT Fender type bridge and make some hardwood (Ebony probably) saddles in the DDP style. It should be possible to tap threads into the ebony - see how they last. Interesting that the saddles do not appear to have a clear defined break point like 'regular' bridge saddles do. This will depend on what angle they are set up at though.

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From here: [url="http://www.mike-sabre.com/Models/DDiPiazzaModels/DDPFretlessBridge/ddpfretlessbridge.html"]http://www.mike-sabr...lessbridge.html[/url]

It looks like the saddle has three adjustments, not 2 as is traditional. I'd imagine the four set screws allow the saddle to tilt to give as much or as little forward tilt as desired to dial in the "Mwah" or fretless tones. Super cool idea. . . but I'm not sure if the intonation adjustment is complicated by this?

EDIT: I also found this design: [url="http://www.eyb-guitars.de/Eyb-English/DDP-Bridge.html"]http://www.eyb-guitars.de/Eyb-English/DDP-Bridge.html[/url]

Side locking is mentioned - but I'd need to see one working to know how it works!

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