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Oct 1954 Original Owner
Stratocaster
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1950 Deluxe Amp

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Oct 1954 Original Owner Stratocaster Callaham Guitars ™
217 Park Center Drive
Winchester, VA 22603
U.S.A.
voice  (540) 678-4043
fax   (540) 678-8779
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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 !
 
 
 
Oct 1954 Original Owner Stratocaster 1950 Deluxe Amp
 
 

     

  • Only for 2010 . . . We made a limited number of . . .
    Left-handed Mexican Std Bridge Assemblies (2 1/16 mounting and string spacing)
    and Left-handed V/N Bridge Assemblies (2 7/32 mounting and 2 1/16 string spacing).
    Price is $185.00.
    This is all we will make this year. When they are gone that will be all.
    This is the only page these Lefty narrow strat bridges will be listed.

     

  • Left-handed Blocks for American Standard Bridges and Mexican Standard Bridges.
    We now offer our full line of upgrade kits for both American Standard bridges and Mexican Standard Bridges in a left-hand version. Please see our Am. Std. Upgrades page and Mex. Std. Upgrades page for pricing.

     

  • For those looking at the new American Special Guitars from Fender, the strats take our V/N Bridge Assembly or our Mexican Std. Upgrades as a direct replacement and the teles take our Vintage T Model Bridge Assembly as a direct replacement.

     

  • 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. We have stainless steel stud/thumbwheels kits for changing a traditional ABR-1 bridge and a special stud kit for converting guitars with a Nashville bridge to our 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
Callaham CNC Machined Steel Billet ABR-1 tun-o-matic bridge for Gibson guitars

 
 
 

 
 
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