New Bridge by EVH

[Posepatrol]

*Don't Kill for the size..The print was small.

I'm assuming for Les Pauls.

At first I thought "What's the point? Use a Hipshot!"

You put a Lock Nut on your Lucille it would be cool ! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Posepatrol]

Re: New Bridge by EVH

Oh and for your amusement, this one has cracked me up for years... Nice strap placement..

[txcharvel]

Re: New Bridge by EVH

Well, at least he's not sitting around waiting for Sammy to call him...

[chrisintampa]

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i think that is a a marketing ploy to use his name - somebody came up with that and is going to brand it under the EVH "family". i mean shit - just grab the tuner and tune it....

[noodlesatf]

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Eddie came up with the D-tuna for the Floyd, so why not this for a stop tail bridge? Makes sense to me.

[moro]

Re: New Bridge by EVH

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i think that is a a marketing ploy to use his name - somebody came up with that and is going to brand it under the EVH "family".

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There's no reason Eddie's name would be the only one on the patent application if this was a marketing ploy. When they went into production, they could have just called it "The Eddie Van Halen Whatchamacallit."

There's no reason to believe that this isn't his invention.

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i mean shit - just grab the tuner and tune it....

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This is much faster than using the tuner. You can switch in the middle of a song if you wanted.

[shreddermon]

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D-tuna for TOM-style bridges. Semi-coincidental publication date, though. Right around the same time the EVH Charvels were announced last year.

[Boxcar Willie 84]

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I'm pretty sure that Ibanez did this already.

[noodlesatf]

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Ibanez has, but their design requires mounting the drop tuner portion behind the bridge, on the face of the guitar:



Yuck... [img]/images/graemlins/what.gif[/img]

[YetAnotherOne]

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There's no reason Eddie's name would be the only one on the patent application if this was a marketing ploy.

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And there's a very good reason it wouldn't be on there if he didn't invent it: indicating that someone is an inventor when they were did not in fact contribute to the inventive process is grounds for invalidating a patent.

[Posepatrol]

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No Finetuner and not connected to the bridge.


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Ibanez has, but their design requires mounting the drop tuner portion behind the bridge, on the face of the guitar:



Yuck... [img]/images/graemlins/what.gif[/img]

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[pro-fusion]

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What's up with that weird drawing on the third page of the application? Looks like a new definition for the term "wang bar"... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Sunbane]

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What's up with that weird drawing on the third page of the application? Looks like a new definition for the term "wang bar"... [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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That was my thought exactly! =)
Hideous drawing too.

[StukaJU87]

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I think the last page was a goof. [img]/images/graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] At least I hope it was. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[toejam]

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I don't get it. I've already got a TP6 fine-tuning tailpiece on my Les Paul... I just use the fine tuner when I want to drop down to D, that is if I'm really lazy and don't want to drop the normal tuner at the headstock. [img]/images/graemlins/brow.gif[/img] It's not like using the fine tuner on the tailpiece will make the other strings go out of tune like on a floating Floyd, but I guess for people who like to use it on the fly... whatever floats your boat.