Bridge Preference

What’s your bridge of choice?

  • Floyd Rose

    Votes: 17 33.3%

  • Strat style traditional w/bar

    Votes: 3 5.9%

  • Hard tail/fixed (Les Paul, SG, Tele)

    Votes: 24 47.1%

  • Bigsby

    Votes: 3 5.9%

  • Any other floating trem- Jazzmaster, Jag etc

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Any other hard tailed fixed non tremolo.

    Votes: 4 7.8%
  • Total voters
    51
I've been a 510 fan for awhile, but getting the itch to build something with the Gotoh Floyd.

One of my Charvel's has a 510 with the locking Wilkinson saddles, pretty solid and you don't have to bother with cutting off the string ends.
 
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I don't think there can be a 'favorite' necessarily since they all have a specific use. To stay in tune and also use the whammy for more than vibrato, Floyd is the best. First light bar work, something like a 2-point trem, say a Gotoh 510, is best. For a lower bridge, stratier tone, vibrato/short dives then a screw-in strat bridge is best. Les Pauls with anything other than a stop tail is not a Les Paul in my (biased) mind. Fixed trems do the drop tuning thing best. What would be great is a tremolo that can be like a floyd or 2-point, but be able to pull a lever to set it Fixed against the bridge cavity. I don't have any Floyd style bridges right now but am preferring them these days just to stay in tune with bar use.
 
I like Gibson-style bridges where they're a bit raised off the body. That's what I'm used to playing and most comfortable with. I also like wraparounds as long as the intonation is adjustable.

I don't dislike low-profile Fender-esque hardtails like Hipshot, Gotoh, etc., but I'm not as comfortable with them as with Tune-O's.

I don't mind Floyds or Fender-style trems as long as I can block them and turn them into hardtails, LOL.

I cannot stand Bigsbys. Such a dated design that has not aged well. The rhetoric behind playing a Bigsby these days... yeah, not a fan either.
 
Shouldn't there be an option for Gotoh-style trem?

I mean, it's not exactly a "Strat style traditional w/bar" is it?
 
The old 6-screw with bent steel saddles has the sound for me when it comes to trems and I like having that option (to use the trem). I set them up decked and the springs such that a g-string step and a half bend at the 12th fret just barely lifts it off the body. So unison bends sound great everywhere on the fretboard.

EDIT: but not a Fender. They are super low quality and high price. Gotoh/Wilkinson/et al all make better ones.
 
I forget who makes it, maybe Wilkinson, but the compensated 3 saddle bridge on my Tele is nice.
 
If it's a bridge that has the strings go through the body I'm happy. For the tone the worst IME are Floyd's and Kahler's. Maybe Evertune is worse, but haven't tried one

Maybe I'll actually say tele styles bridges as my favorites. They add a zingy aggressive bite to the sound I like as well as the extra resonance in sound from the strings going through the body
 
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