When replacing the strings on my Les I decided to give it a good polish, but in the process, knocked the bridge off the body. It's a tune-o-matic bridge obviously but I can't remember which way the screw heads were facing, toward the neck or the tailpiece. When I look at pictures online, they seem to be facing the neck most of the time, but when I have mine facing towards the tailpiece the pieces on the bridge look like this | so that the slanted end is facing the tailpiece and the other side (closer to the neck) is straight up and down, perpendicular to the body.
God know if any of this makes any sense but hopefully someone can help.
Late
Mike
I don't have an LP, but I do have a guitar with a similar bridge and the adjusting screws face away from the neck, towards the tailpiece.
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The adjuster screws on my epi LP face toward the neck
same here, towards the neck
I had the same thing happening not so long ago so you're not the first one doubting over it.
Add me to the "towards the neck" on my Epi! I see guitars all the time that someone mistakenly put it on backwards.
LOL, on my Jackson Kelly they are toward the tail and on the Soloist they are toward the neck. Stick it on and check the intonation, if its way off flip it around.
P.S. I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing at Jackson guitars.
I'm almost 100% positive they should be facing toward the neck and away from the tailpiece.
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Add me to the "towards the neck" on my Epi! I see guitars all the time that someone mistakenly put it on backwards.
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I check the intonation, everything seems fine...I still can't be sure though, I'm so indecisive :(
If everything seems fine, don't worry. I have a Gibson Faded V and the intonation tuners face the tailpiece. Samething for my Agile LP copy and then there is this Gibson Les Paul http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document?cpd=0OEY&doc_id=99371&g=guitar&base_pid=518930&index=3
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My intonation's fine and the screws face away from the necck.
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Yeah...I stopped by guitar center today to look at the bridges on other guitars and some were facing the neck and some were facing the tailpiece. However, I noticed that the ones that were facing the tailpiece were designed differently, like the one I have. I also asked the guy there and he said if the intonation is fine, then I got nothing to be worried about.
Dilemma #475 solved
Thanks for the help guys
Late
Good job 3XR! A good visual verification, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL.
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