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Comment by Habanera Hal on July 31, 2011 at 1:11am

This is how I did it.  Modify the mandolin tailpiece per Gitty's suggestion, then feed the saddle's screws through the holes:

Comment by Mike Whisenhunt on July 30, 2011 at 12:53pm

How do they mount? Doesn't look like much hardware for the tension of the strings... never used them before so I have no experience with them.

Comment by Habanera Hal on July 30, 2011 at 10:33am

You can find them on eBay real cheap. http://cgi.ebay.com/BLACK-Guitar-Bridge-Saddle-Fits-USA-TOP-QUALITY...  or http://cgi.ebay.com/GOLD-Guitar-Bridge-Tremolo-Saddle-Strat-Style-I... I had some black ones laying around so used them, for the same reason you said.  I'm going to change them out for gold as soon as I can.

Comment by Mike Whisenhunt on July 30, 2011 at 4:54am

where did you get the bridge/saddle units? totally need something like that on my current build as real estate is somewhat limited on the oliva box

Comment by Habanera Hal on July 27, 2011 at 4:50pm

Yup.  Modified 'em just as his suggestion.  The one on the right has a regular bridge (with a brass bolt saddle).  The one on the left has 3 stratocaster style bridge/saddle combo units.  (The box on the left is a little shorter and a regular bridge would have been under the tailpiece cover)  BTW - they both sound great, a lot louder acoustically than I thought they would be!

Comment by Mike Whisenhunt on July 27, 2011 at 11:25am

those the tail pieces from gitty?