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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on January 2, 2019 at 11:07am

Hi, I would remove all saddles, redrill the screw holes in the back of the bridge x3 at the spacing I require. 

Reassemble with three saddles. The individual saddles may need shimming to get correct saddle Hight.

I got value for money by building my "Breadboard" 2 stringer, just cut the bridge in half.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on January 2, 2019 at 11:47am

I've used the individual ones with  great results and spacing is not an issue . you can also  use the thru body anchor method ,  and use lighter bass strings . and any homemade  bridge you want .

Also  , to save  money ,  warp worry , and intimidation , ... you can  make a 2 or 3 string  short scale bass. 25 inch scale  and use  number .60 and.52 strings from a special set of “ ghs boomers “  or  drop d tuning  guitar strings . and they still fit regular guitar tuner holes . Combined  a forward pup placement , it’s a sweet lil bass . and since it’s all “guitar” parts , it can easily be converted to a “regular guitar string” equipped 2 or 3 stringer. I have made a few like this .

easy peasy lemon squeezy. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on January 2, 2019 at 1:53pm

the individual ones are slightly dearer but i think i like the look better.... 

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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on January 2, 2019 at 11:56am

I I made a 3-string bass with a 5-string bridge, just removing the 2 outer saddles. Worked out pretty well and It was less that $15 on Ebay.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on January 2, 2019 at 1:42pm

i thought of doing this as well. i dont think my box is as wide as that one . i was worried the bridge would look too massive..  my box is 7 3/4"wide.

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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on January 2, 2019 at 3:58pm

Mine is 9"...  And I'm not exaggerating. :D

I think it would work fine on a 7 3/4" box.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on January 2, 2019 at 11:04pm

the one i was looking at is 3 7/8" wide. if my math works that leaves 1 15/16" each side of the bridge to the edge of the box.. might look a bit large . 

curious, what scale length did you use and what string guage?

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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on January 3, 2019 at 1:42am

I did 25.5" scale, flatwounds, E1 .090, A1 .065, D2 .050

The bridge I have is 3.5" wide.

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Permalink Reply by Grandpa on January 4, 2019 at 4:45pm

Nice looking three stringer, Korrigan. What p/u did you use?

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Permalink Reply by Korrigan on January 5, 2019 at 2:58pm

Thanks! It's an MGB Mini Box Bucker 4.0.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin 'Hambone' Hamilton on January 5, 2019 at 4:26pm

I used the single bridges. Worked great.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on January 6, 2019 at 3:07am

thats what i ended up getting. will give a cleaner look i feel.

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