Big Brass Beastie - but who made it?

[Alanko]

Hi Gang,

I bought this chunky brass bridge off of Ebay last week:



With a bit of loving I was able to get it pretty cleaned up:



Does anybody recognise it? It is sort of patterned somewhere between a Badass I and II, but probably bigger in every way. It is drilled out as an 8 string bridge (I think?) as it has smaller holes at an offset angle to the main string holes. It is a toploader only design, with four mounting holes at the corners of a rectangle.

I've had to re-slot the saddles as it was an ugly mix of random grooves on each one except the low E.


The build quality reminds me of the bridge I took from a Westone Thunder bass. The longer you look the more you realise that none of the geometries are perfectly square, and the flat surfaces are all wee bit 'wobbly jelly'.

It is a punishingly heavy bridge at 372 g (13 ounces).

Anybody seen one of these before?

[gearHed289]

I have not, but it does look like a Badass 1 knockoff like you said.

[Dave W]

It does look similar to a Badass I but I wouldn't call it a knockoff because it's brass.  All three versions of the Badass were cast zinc alloy.

[godofthunder]

   Brass and mass were king in the late 70s. It could be Mighty Mite, Schecter etc.

[clankenstein]

I cant find any reference to it on line, but I bought a brass F spaced bridge by Dimarzio around !984 I think. Different Bridge saddles, more like a Hipshot.