How do they even have time to play worrying about this stuff?
Play?
Trying to get tone by changing parts yet it’s no closer to what they had beforehand. It’s called PLACEBO! I spent the money! Goddamn it! It sound better than a burst!!!
This is not a rude or negative comment.
I tried one on one LP and it didn’t work out liked I’d hoped. I tried one on a bright R7 that I was trying to warm up. The brass bridge certainly warmed things up but to an overboard degree, very damped down with reduced harmonics. I tried both steel and brass thumbwheels with the brass ABR1 and it was still too much.
I just put one on mine and 100% agree it’s night and day vs Gibson’s ABR-1. The original ABR-1 chokes. Granted I changed the thumbwheels to brass as well during the change? But 100% tone is clearer, warmer and louder
Well to each their own. I can’t say if it was the brass thumbwheels that made more of a difference than the bridge? But I changed just the thumbwheels. Not the studs as Gibson uses brass studs. And changed the stock ABR-1 to FU and it definitely was night and day. Both acoustically and through an amp. I didn’t file saddles. And I’m still using original strings I had. I loosened enough to pull the bridge out and replace it. Then adjust the height and it was much better. Like took the guitar off of choke. Sustain if theres a difference? I’d say it’s negligibly better. But tone, warmth, clarity and volume are more apparent. I ordered mine from overseas through Facebook and got it in 4days.
I probably should’ve tried? Maybe I’ll try it but I honestly think it’s both the bridge and wheels.
No I am not only saying I am satisfied, and I feel because these are two competitors, like sports, it is fine to drop what we think is the best. I am saying this as my honest opinion and from the opinion of a few others with vintage guitars, the Cooper bridge is better in our comparison compared to the Four Uncles bridge. We compared it with a bridge you purport to have given you sound you claim is high and above everything you have tried. I think the best part, is that Cooper flatly told me that it may not make a difference in sound for me, yet it did slightly, whereas the posts I've seen by Dave Stephens on Facebook and others claims that the Four Uncles bridge will upgrade the sound of our guitars for vintage accuracy or whatever that means. I even did one of the tone tests Dave did himself by dropping the vintage pieces on the table and comparing them, the Four Uncles still sounded different to my old ones and so did the Cooper. All the bridges had a different sound. From a quality perspective though because the Cooper is CNC and Four Uncles bridge is sand cast (which the originals were die cast), we expected the Cooper to be more precise, and it is. I still feel, there are too many outside factors to effectively conclude that it is the bridge though, could it be the posts? Could it be the thumbwheels? What about my amplifier? The speakers and the capacitors?