About three years ago I initiated another project with BaCH.
When the BaCHbird was in the making I started an EB2 / Rivoli project with them.
It was supposed to be very easy because they already have an ES335 in their collection. The body of an ES335 and EB2 is the same. Put on a short scale neck and you're go!
Joe (Chromium) helped me out with lots of pictures and measuments. I gave BaCH all the information they needed.
But they couldn't find an affordable alternative for the choke and the bridge seemed to be a problem too.
After several persistent emails from me to them, they finally sent me a picture of a prototype.
It appeared to be long scale...
Guess they found out when they got to the point where they had to install the bridge... because it has none.
The prototype was rejected and the project was put aside (by BaCH).
Despite several attempts from me to pick up the project it never happened.
A month ago when I was emailing about another project with BaCH I asked if they still had the prototype.
"Oh yeah it's gathering dust in a corner here"
So I asked them if I could buy it. And I had them send it over.
Today I picked it up at the post office.
Apart from the obvious scale hick-up it looks beautiful.
I would really like to get it up and running.
But I need a bridge first.
The Gibson/Epiphone three point bridge would be the most obvious choice I guess. But the string spacing would be too wide. Especially for the bridge pickup.
Of course I could try and make new saddles and notch them for a narrower spacing. But I don't really have the tools to make a precise kind of thing like a saddle.
Didn't Schaller make a two point bridge as an intonable alternative for the original Gibson two point with the fixed bar?
Anybody got any suggestions?
