Northwest Guitars
Roller Saddle Bridge for Epiphone
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If your guitar is fitted with a Bigsby or Duesenberg style tremolo, then pairing it with a roller saddle equipped bridge will offer an excellent upgrade, offering enhanced tuning stability whilst relieving the break angle of the strings. Roller saddles will also provide a lesser pressure on your strings than a standard tune-o-matic bridge where a tremolo unit isn't present.
Roller Saddles
The thinking behind roller saddles is to have less pressure and less friction at the bridge, which is particularly useful when combined with tremolo systems for guitars. Even if your guitar isn't tremolo-equipped, roller saddles still provide an advantage over traditional tune-o-matics as the break angle is less pronounced. This means that you won't wear away your bridge saddles over time, a common issue with tune-o-matic equipped guitars. Some players also find that it feels more comfortable against your picking hand thanks to the lack of sharp edges.
Saddle Retention Rings
This bridge utilises saddle retention rings, which prevents the dreaded saddle rattle that's a symptom of lesser bridges of this type. This significant improvement in design means that this bridge will offer a better playing platform, allowing all your notes to ring out to their true potential.
Things to Note
This bridge has 4.2mm post holes to drop over 4mm posts. If you're wanting to upgrade your Epiphone LP, SG, or ES then you will need the larger 6mm posts, so check out our BM005 for this purpose.
Roller Saddle Bridge
Upgrading your hardware is one of the quickest and low cost ways to find an improvement in your guitar's performance. This Roller Saddle Bridge will offer a significant upgrade to both your sustain and tuning stability, making your guitar tone come to life!
BM015 Specifications
- String Spacing 10.4mm (52mm E to E)
- Radius - 12"
- Bridge Material - Steel
- Saddle Material - Steel
- Metric M4 threads
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Customer Reviews
I fitted the nickel plated version to a gibson guitar with a bigsby vibrato unit. It helped with the smoothness of operation, sensitivity and return to pitch. I experience far fewer tuning problems since fitting this bridge. It was very reasonably priced but there is no noticeable difference in quality from the original tune-o-matic. I will be purchasing another to fit to another guitar.
I ordered a roller saddle from NW, to replace the standard Gibson SG fitting which I don’t get on with.
The arrived on time, and was well packed.
This roller saddle Nashville bridge is a direct drop-in replacement for the 'lipstick' rocker bridge on a Gretsch G6118T (made in Japan), which has no means of intonating the strings. I had to use the supplied smaller thumbwheels as the originals were too large under this bridge. They went straight onto the original 4mm threaded posts with no problems. Note also that this bridge is taller than the original, which required the height wheels to be lowered almost to the bottom of their travel. This might be an issue if you like a VERY low action.
Perfect fit on my bigsby equipped Epiphone and improved tuning stability no end.
Roller Saddle Nashville Bridge for Gibson Les Paul SG ES Dot
