R2D |
Solid mahogany body with figured maple front-plate for string balance and ultimate tone. Kahler vibrato bridge for deep dives and tuning stability. Two Seymour Duncan humbucker pickups within a chamber for tone enhancement. Fender LSR Roller nut for tuning ease and accuracy, string weight tolerance, and tone balance. Humbucker / single-coil switch provides a wide range of vintage and modern tones. Choice of mahogany stain colours, maple figuring, fret-board woods. |
R2D Bridge
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Let's face reality: making a vibrato bridge ( or misnamed "tremolo" bridge) that relies on bed-springs, wood screws, and the body wood in its high-force string tension balancing mechanism, may be cheap to manufacture, but is never going to have the stability or response that a guitarist really needs. The only way to achieve stability together with responsive deep-dive control is to use serious precision engineering components.
R2D Bridge
The Kahler bridge used on the R2D is a heavyweight piece of precision kit, expensive to manufacture, but worth every cent and more. The result is a bridge that offers intimate feel and control; amazingly deep dives down as much as a whole octave; and with one of the right nuts: roller; low-friction; or locking; offers perfectly reliable tuning stability.
Adjustability
The bridge is adjustable in every way imaginable: string weight; individual string intonation; individual string height; individual string-string spacing. The vibrato arm can be used on either side, and the stiffness of its rotation can be set. Strings are top-loaded for quick changing. This is clearly the best vibrato bridge in the world.