Drop Tuner Bridge for Hohner B2A

[SpondonBassed]

Before I put up a wanted ad in the appropriate section I wanted to ask those in the forum with experience of Hohner B2As;

Are the standard bridges interchangeable with the drop tuner bridges?  I would like to have  the option to play in D and not spend time fine tuning on changes between E and D.

[Cuzzie]

this is how it looks on mine if that is any help?

Its prob the same size

[SpondonBassed]

1 minute ago, Cuzzie said:

this is how it looks on mine if that is any help?

Its prob the same size

Thanks.  Wanna swap?  Heeheehee.

It does look similar.  I measured the mounting screw centres at 15mm, 60mm from screw one to screw five.  If there is no part of the drop mechanism let into the body, it looks like a straight swap might be possible.

I'd love to hear from anyone who's heard of it being done successfully.

[SpondonBassed]

@Cuzzie

Does yours have an XLR OUT in addition to the jack socket?

[Cuzzie]

No

just standard

[SpondonBassed]

Can you see if your mounting holes match-up please?

1 hour ago, SpondonBassed said:

I measured the mounting screw centres at 15mm, 60mm from screw one to screw five.

 

[Cuzzie]

Alas, I would right now, but that was a photo a couple of days ago, now on me holibobs.

If you don’t get an answer by next week I can do it then!

 

sorry

[Cuzzie]

2 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

Thanks.  Wanna swap?  Heeheehee.

It does look similar.  I measured the mounting screw centres at 15mm, 60mm from screw one to screw five.  If there is no part of the drop mechanism let into the body, it looks like a straight swap might be possible.

I'd love to hear from anyone who's heard of it being done successfully.

Swapsies - not after popping the EMG’s in which was that photo, I did some soldering  as the solderless wires were linking and were too long!

I did have a B2 passive in white - I will try for find a photo if I can to compare, but I think they were about the same

[Cuzzie]

I know my earlier is a slight angle, but they look pretty similar 

 

[Cuzzie]

I reckon being licensed it will all match up - I hope!!

[SpondonBassed]

Cheers Cuzzie.  Thanks for the helpful responses.  Enjoy your holidays.

[LeftyJ]

Hohner has a rather excellent online shop for spare parts: http://www.hohner-cshop.de/en/Guitar/Headless-Bass-Series/Basses-Bass-Headless-BB/Hohner-B2ADB-Headless/

 

Looks like there are no D-tuner bridges in stock though. Only for the headed models. 

[SpondonBassed]

I was looking at another Hohner cshop web-page where bridges were priced between 109 and 129 Euro.  I've lost the link for now but in any case I was not wanting to spend that much if a cheaper second hand one was available.