tabak with bretz bone bridge

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Comment by Randy S. Bretz on October 6, 2012 at 10:27am

 http://www.handmademusicclubhouse.com/video/bone-piezo-bridge-sound...   here`s a short sound check of the first one i made. Now it`s one of my signture bone pickups and have made alot since that first one.

Comment by Randy S. Bretz on October 6, 2012 at 10:24am

It`s cow bone. I cut the piece from a length of cleaned marrow bone. Then i carved out a chamber on the underside. There i hot glue in a cut piezo disc [ oblong shape to fit the chamber shape ]. Yes the saddle is carved into the top, so there`s about a 1/16" of bone left between the piezo and the saddle. These are hard to make but sound soooooo good !!!!!

Comment by Kenneth Slayor on October 6, 2012 at 10:05am

Ok, I would like to know:

1. What kind of bone is that?
2. Did you cut off the bottom so that there are two rims of bone against the soundboard?
3. Do I see right, that you shaped the top of the bone to have a ridge?

Comment by Randy S. Bretz on June 27, 2010 at 8:34pm

Wow that bridge looks great on a black box and those exotic blackwood end caps really set that bridge off. Now for the big question, how`s it sound?