Repro rickenfaker bridges

[Mr. Foxen]

Plenty of you have probably seent my [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=101055"]Rickenfaker restoration thread[/url], with the humourously destroyed bridge. As part of the restoration, I straightened out that bridge and gave it to an engineer to have a look at, and 'correct' whilst retaining the style. Bascically, the hollows in the weakest parts were filled and other parts thickened, and then cast in a tougher alloy. I've had a batch of these done and am having them machined currently. Next step is finishing, and I'll need to lose the extras to hopefully cover the costs of the one to go on my bass (I have sourced an as original replacement, but I prefer to not worry about in bananaing on me, and have my own custom parts). Would people be interested in colours/finishes other than chrome, they are currently grey alloy castings, currently viable options are chrome, or powder coating, probably in satin or gloss black. Would enough peope fancy them in black to make it worthwhile, or do I play it safe in chrome? Or other suggestions?

On a sort of related, would anyone buy BAII style bridges, possibly machined from solid billets of aluminium, brass, steel or titanium? Could look pretty industrial, and are within the capabilities of the workshop I'm borrowing.

Not done a poll before, and the preview doesn't really help.

[Bassassin]

BA2 clone in aluminium sounds interesting to me - the thing I dislike most about the original is the weight.

Jon.

[Mr. Foxen]

The other colour is getting some votes, be good to know what other colours you have in mind. The local pwder coating place does various things, and I'd have to add them to a batch of a colour to keep costs down. I've seen yellow, when they do the speed camera boxes, and red.

[Mr. Foxen]

Pics of the blank bridges are up in the build diary thread. If you are interested in one of these, keep an eye out in the affiliates forum.

[Mr. Foxen]

Finally got these machined. Going for some black action on the first few. Need to figure if they'll fit a real Rick now.