Nashville to ABR-1 Conversion

[Brent13]

Recently bought a late model Gibson Explorer and it has a Nashville Bridge. Every Gibson I've ever owned has had an ABR-1 bridge. It's purely aesthetic but I prefer the look of the ABR-1. Any suggestions to convert the bridge to an ABR-1?

 

[garywright]

Faber sells what you would need to do a conversion plus their pricing and quality is excellent

 

[Brent13]

Faber sells what you would need to do a conversion plus their pricing and quality is excellent

Thanks! I'll check Faber out.

 

[Gibbons59]

You won't be disappointed. I have their kits on all of my Les Pauls, save for my two Tributes(which I'll do eventually) and my Japanese Tokai.

 

[metropolis]

There's wo options from Faber. You can get their bridge that fits on Nashville posts or you can get the INsert kit that replaces the posts with ones that more resemble the ABR-1 posts.

I've done both but haven't really noticed a different - they're on different guitars anyway so impossible to compare.

 

[El Gringo]

Try www.philidelphialuthiertools.com as they have the conversion posts for this

 

[Tom99SS]

I used Callaham's Nashville conversion studs on my Explorer.

I then sanded down the lip of these conversion studs, inserted them into the guitar and used double thumbwheels with the ABR-1 bridge. Works perfectly.

 

[Evol]

Royal Mount '50 conversion kit in soft brass!

Gibson soft brass 50 thumbwheels and posts adapters for ABR-1 bridge Les Paul SG ES335 2022 Nickel | Reverb

A great kit to convert your Nashville bridge equipped guitar to vintage style ABR-1! All with the same NOS soft brass as the Royal Mount '50 thumbwheels! The kit contains two adapter studs, two thumbwheels, a puller screw for the original Nashville bridge bushings and a nylon cap to install t...

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