Best Replacement Vintage Studs and Tailpiece? Other than the real thing of course.

[Richard Russell]

Hey folks.
I am curious about who makes the best vintage studs and tailpiece assembly for
a 59 style Les Paul.
Thanks
Russell

 

[ultra]

Pigtail

 

[Neal]

AFAIK, Kluson is Gibson's vendor for ABR1 bridges, aluminum stop tails and studs. Faber tp and studs are vg and I have their steel stud screws on several of my Gibsons. I did replace some Historic non-steel studs and pot-metal tp's with Kluson's KLP-1143N aluminum tp and steel studs. Huge diff imo.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Kluson-USA...iUAAOSwAHZUOVyd:sc:USPSFirstClass!33525!US!-1

 

[Hot_Snake]

Pigtail, Montreux.
Retrospec studs are nice.
DMC tailpiece were great but no longer made ...