Hedgehog
May 24th, 2011, 04:08 PM
I'm new here and I confess not to be much of a guitar player, but there is little I like doing more than working on my guitars .... and other stuff, I also confess to being a Bluegrass Banjo player so working on my instrument is second nature, but this is a guitar question.
Just recently an Epiphone Riviera Custom P93 came into my possession, this guitar has three P90 and a Bigsby trem. Oddly enough it doesn't come stock with a roller bridge. I've read that it has a "rocker" bridge so a roller bridge isn't necessary, non-the-less I'd like to add a roller to the guitar for stability.
Normally this wouldn't be a problem, After adding a Bigsby to my Ibanez AF75 it was easy enough to add a roller bridge to the existing floating bridge base of the Ibanez. It seemed like it would be just as easy to add one to the Riviera. Now I'm not so sure. The Riviera has very small posts. For some reason it seems logical to install beefier posts under the bridge. Most new bridges come with gromets and much thicker adjustment posts for the bridge. Here's my question, is it difficult to remove the origional post gromets in the guitar body to retrofit the new bridge gromets?
MJM
Just recently an Epiphone Riviera Custom P93 came into my possession, this guitar has three P90 and a Bigsby trem. Oddly enough it doesn't come stock with a roller bridge. I've read that it has a "rocker" bridge so a roller bridge isn't necessary, non-the-less I'd like to add a roller to the guitar for stability.
Normally this wouldn't be a problem, After adding a Bigsby to my Ibanez AF75 it was easy enough to add a roller bridge to the existing floating bridge base of the Ibanez. It seemed like it would be just as easy to add one to the Riviera. Now I'm not so sure. The Riviera has very small posts. For some reason it seems logical to install beefier posts under the bridge. Most new bridges come with gromets and much thicker adjustment posts for the bridge. Here's my question, is it difficult to remove the origional post gromets in the guitar body to retrofit the new bridge gromets?
MJM