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Bigsbys!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:10 pm
by nieh
Thinking about getting a Bigsby B5 and vibramate to put on my HH Jag. How do you all feel about Bigsbys?

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:53 pm
by Fuzzy Fred
love em, but fuck the b5 and get the b7 because the b5 is uggo

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:01 pm
by dubkitty
i :love: Bigsbys, as you might expect of someone who grew up on Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Jorma Kaukonen, and John Cipollina. you can do wonderful things with a Bigsby. and it's a bit of a lost art nowadays, so you can really fuck people up with it, too. especially people in your age cohort, many of whom have probably never HEARD that shit. bwaa haa haaaaaaaa :thumb:

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:43 pm
by Noise...
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Do it.

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:18 pm
by Chankgeez
Yep, DO IT.

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:12 pm
by Zounds Perspex
give it a shot. that's the nice thing about the Vibramate, you don't like it, just yank it. my understanding is that the B5 makes it a bitch to change strings, though.

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:45 pm
by Chankgeez
Zounds Perspex wrote:my understanding is that the B5 makes it a bitch to change strings, though.


I used to have a guitar with a B5. Yeah, at first it was a bitch to change strings, but it gets a little easier after you've done it a few times.

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:05 pm
by foomanfat
I had a Vibramate on my old tele for all of a day, before just installing the bigsby proper.
The adapter fit weird despite being made for teles.

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Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:59 am
by D.o.S.
They're fucking badass.

I've never met anyone who straight up didn't hate Bigsbys--only people who didn't click with 'em personally.

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:46 am
by dubkitty
and even if you don't use the thing, it LOOKS fucking wicked.

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:34 am
by colin
I briefly owned a Gretsch with a Bigsby, and honestly it was my favourite part of it. I'm seriously considering the Vibramate kit and B7 for my old LP copy.

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:50 pm
by masked elwood
nieh wrote:How do you all feel about Bigsbys?


:love: :love: :love: SO MUCH LOVE :love: :love: :love:

:love: I love re-stringing them. (ok..not really but it's not that big a deal)
:love: I love their tuning instability.
:love: I love their stupid shiny chrome faces.
:love: I wish love upon all that use them.

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:56 pm
by Gearmond
Bigsby fanboy reporting in.

do it, man.

also Vibramates kinda do fit weird sometimes, BUT ain't nothing wrong with adding a big ol' chunk of aluminum to an already hueg chunk of aluminum for a bridge.

Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:18 am
by Fuzzy Fred
I,Galactus wrote:
nieh wrote:How do you all feel about Bigsbys?


:mad: :mad: :mad: SO MUCH HATE :mad: :mad: :mad:

:mad: I hate re-stringing them.
:mad: I hate their tuning instability.
:mad: I hate their stupid shiny chrome faces.
:mad: I wish death upon them all.


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Re: Bigsbys!

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:45 am
by kosta
I,Galactus wrote:
Clayton Bigsby, the black white supremacist wrote:If you have hate in your heart let it out!

:lol: