benadrian wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 12:15 pm

WeStartToDrift wrote: Mon Jul 26, 2021 2:02 pm Why do people put Bigsbys on Jazzmasters?

I feel like this is more of a WTF statement than a question, but I'll attempt to answer.
I think it comes from the trend a while back to use tune-o-matic and stop tailpieces on offset style guitars. A certain type of player really liked that setup.
Now, once you have any guitar with a stop tailpiece, putting a Vibramate kit on it to add a Bigsby is pretty much a piece of cake.
Then Fender released a series of JMs with Bigsbys screwed in. And people bought them! I think a lot of offset fans want to collect a lot of variations.

When it comes to off brands, for a long time a generic Bigsby was easier to find than a generic Jag/Jazz vibrato. So when a cheapo company was trying to recreate the feel of an offset guitar, they just clamped on a no name bigsby vibrato because it was the cheapest vibrato option.

that's my $0.02

WeStartToDrift wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:08 pm

Kniferide wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:57 pm Aren't some Ventures Model Mosrite trems basically just bigsby knockoffs? If so it kinda sets a precedent for putting that style of trem on an offset.

losthighway wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 1:54 pm

Adam_I_III wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 9:14 am Yeah, it has been hot and wet here. Didn't expect such a big movement in 3 days. Bummer. I hate adjusting truss rods.

I avoided it like the plague until I had a luthier out of commission with an illness and an extra 30 minutes in the jam space. It's really not so bad. I always have to check the online pictures to remember which direction does what, but they're totally helpful. Making small moves and then playing a while got me somewhere I'd call better in a relatively low-stress way.

My pickup install might be a different journey.

Adam_I_III wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:30 am
Thanks for that! I have done them before, but I always feel there's some voodoo to it that I'm missing...

penningtron wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 8:19 am the Bigsby placement is almost always pushed back too far to do the 'glider' strum thing.

turnbullac wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:07 pm Line level TRS on one end of a cable means that the XLR end will still be line level when it plugs into the speaker, right?

Kniferide wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:26 pm

turnbullac wrote: Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:07 pm Line level TRS on one end of a cable means that the XLR end will still be line level when it plugs into the speaker, right?

yes.