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Welcome and thank you for visiting Callaham Guitars™. We are dedicated to producing the finest Guitars and Replacement Parts for those who want only the best for their instruments.

I have been fortunate to have grown up with the great instruments of the 20th century at my disposal. From Lloyd Loar Mandolins, Pre-war Martins and Gibson instruments to 50's Gibson Les Pauls and Fender Strats and Teles. It is from those great instruments that we establish our base line for tone.

I was also fortunate to have been raised in a machine shop and later earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from Virginia Tech. I try to bring all of this experience together to produce our products. Our goal is to produce the finest products available so that every musician will be able to reach their goal.

- Bill Callaham

What's New !

Callaham CNC Machined Steel Billet ABR-1 tun-o-matic bridges for Gibson Guitars.

We started this project in February of 2009 to solve the problem of a completely inferior bridge material used by Gibson since 1954 and copied by every aftermarket bridge maker since. All ABR-1 bridges and their aftermarket copies have been made of ZINC (pot metal). Zinc is a tremendous dampener and never should come in contact so directly with the strings as it does on an ABR-1 bridge. But casting a bridge body in zinc is very cheap. I try not to use the inflated adjectives used by so many in this business, but our machined billet steel bridge body will make any guitar using an ABR-1 or a Nashville Tun-o-matic bridge into a true stringed instrument. The widening of frequency response, the focus and note separation of chords, and true singing effortless sustain will be obtained. The first run is back from plating and is now available. We will have stainless steel stud/thumbscrew kits for changing a traditional ABR-1 bridge and a special stud kit for converting a Nashville bridge to our ABR-1 bridge.

We have added a completely new page for our Callaham ABR-1 bridge. Please read our ABR-1 bridge page and if this page does not answer your questions, please feel free to e-mail us.


Callaham CNC Machined Steel Billet ABR-1 tun-o-matic bridge for Gibson guitars with Vintage Studs Price $117.50	Callaham CNC Machined Steel Billet ABR-1 tun-o-matic bridge for Gibson guitars with Nashville Conversion Studs Price $122.50

Callaham CNC Machined Steel Billet ABR-1 tun-o-matic bridge for Gibson guitars

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