• Guitar Orders.

  For 2011/2012

  Abe and I need a break from building guitars. So we will not accept any deposits for guitar orders. We have a stockpile of excellent wood that is going to stay right here. We just need to recharge. Thank you for your understanding.

• Hendrix "Voodoo" Style Pickguard.

  We have had enough requests for the "Hendrix Voodoo Pickguard" that we are adding it as an option. Remember, your body must be routed correctly for this setup. Pictures below.

  $10.00 upcharge for pickguard only.
  $10.00 upcharge for prewired guard.

• Tele Neck Pickup Marking Tool.

  This is not available anywhere but here. After seeing several "Do-It-Yourself" Teles with holes all over the cavity and the assembler asking "how do you do that", here is how we do it. With your neck and bridge installed, put the marker in the cavity, and install the pickguard so it is squared up. Push down on the marker, and you have where to drill your pickup mounting holes. This marker is set up to work for vintage styled Tele neck pickups.

  Price for the marker is $35.00 for Aluminum plus Shipping.

• Callaham Parts on Larrivee and Seymour Duncan Guitars.

  We would like to thank publicly both Larrivee Guitars and Seymour Duncan for choosing our bridges for their instruments.

Larrivee has introduced their Bakersfield model electric which comes standard with a Callaham Vintage T Model Bridge (shown left) with enhanced saddles. You can see the new Bakersfield model at www.larrivee.com .

Larrivee is a company of craftsmen that produces excellent instruments. It is an honor to have our parts on their fine work. I would strongly suggest you ask your local dealer about this model and take it for a test run.

In collaboration with Larrivee, Seymour Duncan introduced the Seymour Duncan 35 Limited Edition Guitar. Only 35 are being produced of the legendary "TeleGib" that Seymour built for Jeff Beck in the 70's. Again, we are very honored that Seymour chose our ABR-1 bridge for this special instrument. You can see the new Seymour Duncan 35 Limited Edition Guitar at www.Seymourduncan.com.

Both these companies could have purchased hardware from cheaper sources. But when sound quality is the most important criteria, they came to us.

• Custom Bridge Sale.

  We produce custom bridges for many boutique builders. In doing so we always produce extras in case something gets damaged in plating and shipping. We have 6 custom bridges we produced several years ago for a boutique company that is unfortunately no longer in business. They have a PRS type bridge with the vintage 2 7/32" mounting spacing but with a 2 1/8" string spacing. The top plate is billet machined brass, nickel plated, and of course uses our tremelo block with a pop-in trem arm that can be tensioned. Saddles are vintage saddles. Bridge will be sold as complete assemblies with all mounting screws, springs, claw, etc. Price is $200.00 plus shipping, and there are no returns. So be sure you want it, and that it is compatible with your instrument. Pictures below.

 

• 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