Bigsby on a Teisco..

[veteransdaypoppy]

I've got this guitar:


I wanna put a Bigsby on it! The guitar's a fugly piece of nasty, but the pickups are brutal and I can get some gorgeous Pisces Iscariot style tones from it. Like, dead-on through a Marshall. It's nuts. The original vibrato system is all sorts of horrible, as soon as you move the bar even a little bit, it goes out of tune and doesn't come back. I've messed around with the springs and WD-40'd that shit but nothing seems to get it to work as I imagine it should.

Which Bigsby do you suggest I use? I was thinking the Bigsby B5 would fit nicely, but I'm new to this whole thing and I figured I'd ask you guys before I made up my Christmas list.

Thanks dudes!

[pureMania]

I feel your pain, I've got this one

and just gave up on even trying to use the vibrato...I just string straight through instead of wrapping around the bar and just forget about it. If you do go with the Bigsbym I'd be interested to hear how it come out.

[metalmariachi]

Bigsbys are pretty chunky animals, it may not fit neatly.
http://www.bigsbyguitars.com/vibe/?page_id=118

Wish the site gave all the measurements.
But they do have a video of an installation on a Tele.

MM

[pureMania]

Actually, after some looking around, this may work

http://store.guitarfetish.com/vistsumowhba.html

[elbandito]

I've got this guitar:


I wanna put a Bigsby on it!
Which Bigsby do you suggest I use? I was thinking the Bigsby B5 would fit nicely, but I'm new to this whole thing and I figured I'd ask you guys before I made up my Christmas list.

Thanks dudes!

what does your tailpiece look like under that cover?

I just stuck a Bigsby B5 on an Affinity Tele last week. I didn't think it'd work because of the 6 saddle thing the affinities come with but it worked out on the second try. just so long as you can get the strings straight as they're going from the tailpiece to the bridge, you should be good. You should get one of the really long arms... I can't rememeber the model name offhand.

I like the bound neck on that guitar... and the fret markings too.
what do the knobs do? three vol & master tone?