Stub Mandrel

Perhaps if I state "A high mas bridge increases sustain by using its inertia to reduce energy loss into the body" it would be less radical. However, this statement is not compatible with the manufacturer's claim of : "Extremely high wood energy transfer." My concern being that if one of their statements is nonsense, perhaps their other claims are dubious? There is a get out if, and only if: The high mass bridge has 'extremely high wood energy transfer' but loses even less energy from the bridge than a traditional bridge than the increase in energy transferred to the wood. No doubt someone will want to dance on the pin of how much more energy 'extremely high' is compared to what a standard bridge transfers.

They have use buy dates. You'll see healthy ones well past their date, and leaky ones with years to go and still in the packet.

If the nut-neck-body-bridge system is infinitely rigid, then it will not vibrate at all and sustain will be Determined by the extent of other losses. If the nnbb system is highly resonant, energy from the string will be readily dissipated into it (e.g. acoustic instruments). Note that many acoustic instruments have excellent sustain and produce a long note using only energy sapped from the string. I estimate acoustic guitar at <<0.1W. Presumably energy lost into an electric instrument is the tiny power generated by the pickup (peaking around a mW by my estimate), a tiny amount of sound energy and the rest is heat. Perhaps the energy lost into the body isn't especially significant. However, the fact remains that a high mass bridge can't increase sustain by sapping energy from the string.

If 100% of the energy from the string goes to the body, then the string will stop vibrating. Total damping.

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You need a pair of these.

Well it could be considered rude not to let a host of prospective buyers see the Jabbas...

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How do people cut and paste the list without losing the username links? Are the links needed?

I struggle with flats. I lije to be able to feel the frets under the strings withou needing a grip like Jeff Capes.

Most excellent!

This is absolutely true. The thing with musical instruments is that aesthetics are given great weight when they (unlike ergonomics, for example) have no practical significance. I would note that my comment on the Badass II's had nothing to do with it's benefits (I'm sceptical, especially as more sustain than I need possibly also means more susceptibility to sympathtic resonances) and simply to to question of how it can deliver more energy to the body from the string and yet rather than damping the string, it makes it vibrate longer.

40th anniversary p-bass?

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If they increase sustain, it can only be by reducing the transfer of energy to the body. Perhaps this is why you don't find high-mass bridges on acoustic guitars, violins and double basses.

The original Badass II high mass bridge claims: 1 Extremely high wood energy transfer. 2 Longer sustain. Is there a physicist who could explain the mechanism by which transfering more energy from a vibrating string to the body of a bass guitar causes it to keep vibrating for longer?

I didn't even associate Sapko with an accent, In my head he was American... No, it was his "prompt a reaction" videos on Facebook in a style I find irritating regardless of the subject matter.

I don't doubt your honesty, but a friend who imports machinery has many examples of 'unused' features that must have been broken or wrong when the item was sold years before... 12 months is a fair time for people to be certain a product works. That said, it should be possible to explain this to an upset or frustrated customer and remain polite.

Possibly meant to indicate the level in dB? But relative to what... plus a true dB volume control is not silent at zero...

He's even more irritating than Davey 504!

My comment was light-hearted, in particular bass speakers are usually made with fidelity in mind. Guitar speakers are expected to 'break up' or at least strongly colour the sound when driven hard.

Yes, but tell that to a guitar player...

Check out his profile on Soundcloud, it's examples of his session work. Not flash, just very accomplished. You can criticise his YouTube if you wish, but don't assume he can't do what we try to do.