heritage goldtop p90 (bridge question)

[vagabond]

Hi all,

 

last week i became a proud owner of a Heritage Goldtop . Imagine that i was out on the market to get myself a gibson and when i played this guitar i fell in love with it. Loved the vibe loved the sound loved everything. a week has passed and i cant let it of my hand. When i changed strings i took of the bridge and placed it back. The low e string does not go on the p 90 pole but a little bit from the side. do you think that i placed the bridge in a wrong way? help i apreciated. Many thanks in advance.

 

greetings from Greece

[H]

Hi Vagabond, welcome to the HOC from another European member

 

Nice guitar!

 

The bridge is a Nashville type and this is on the usual way round. It looks like you need to put a new notch into the saddle for the low E string to line it up with the pickup screw.

[mars_hall]

Hi all,

 

last week i became a proud owner of a Heritage Goldtop . Imagine that i was out on the market to get myself a gibson and when i played this guitar i fell in love with it. Loved the vibe loved the sound loved everything. a week has passed and i cant let it of my hand. When i changed strings i took of the bridge and placed it back. The low e string does not go on the p 90 pole but a little bit from the side. do you think that i placed the bridge in a wrong way? help i apreciated. Many thanks in advance.

 

greetings from Greece

 

The flat side of the saddles are facing the pups, so the orientation is correct. The slots in the saddles could be off a bit or have been removed at one point from the bridge and replaced in the wrong order. Shouldn't make all that great of a difference since the pole screw can be adjusted. The pole screw spacings on pups vary, depending on the pup, from what is called modern and vintage spacing. There is also F spacing, but that is usually with FR/Kahler tailpieces and not relevant here.

[golferwave]

Hi and welcome to the HOC! Very nice goldtop H-150 P-90. Is the string spacing up and down the fingerboard between the bridge and the nut correct? If so and it plays nice I wouldn't worry too much about the orientation to the pole piece. Enjoy your new Heritage!

[Patrick]

I'm not a guitar tech by any stretch of the imagination. I leave that stuff to the people who make a living at it. But something is bothering me here . . . you stated that the guitar was fine until you changed the strings? Is it possible that the string was not over the pole to begin with?

[Patrick]

After looking at it a little closer, it appears that the bridge P90 was installed about 1/4" too far towards the treble side. The strings are aligned correctly on either side of the fret board . . . so the bridge and the tail piece seems correct. The P90 pick up should have been installed better. It's misaligned. I have to believe it was like that all along and you never noticed it. Did you buy this guitar new?

[vagabond]

first of all thank you very much for the reply. i found out that the saddles are very wrong oriented/ slotted (terribly sorry English is not my native language) and i will contact the guitar store that i purchased it. i checked it and with a proper bridge it will be perfect! imagine that that the low E has 1,2 cm from the a string and then the strings between them has 1 cm spacing aproximately.

as for the guitar i purchased it as new and the condition is brand new. I found later through the site that it is a 2006 model. (W01706)I can only assume that it is new old stock as the market in Greece is a little stif lately due to cyberstores.

 

asap i will have any news i will update and i will try to record something as a sample

 

cheers !!!!

[SlappyTappy]

You could also install a Schaller Roller Bridge and adjust the slots left and right to center them above the pickup.

 

(Never thought you'd use that feature, did you!)

[vagabond]

You could also install a Schaller Roller Bridge and adjust the slots left and right to center them above the pickup.

 

(Never thought you'd use that feature, did you!)

 

thanks for the tip i checked the bridge in a cyberstore seems great.And for the quality and the brand it is not expensive.

I will contact the store though as it is a new guitar and i believe that it is on warranty.