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There will be some parts floating around but you’ll want to consider other options. You’ll find a few ideas here: Guitar Parts Resources for Headless Guitar Designs.

For both series:
Which tuner bearings?
Do they operate smooth?
Any close pics of the 3800 saddles? Like the individuals?

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WRT the fanned Kahlers, Josh mailed me back they’re available in 6, 7, 8 and 9 string versions.
Production usually takes 8 weeks and price varies between $699 and $949.

The maximum difference in the witness point of the first string to the witness point of the lowest string is 1.600″.

van Sinn

I had contacted Kahler and got some pics, prices, etc. of their “Hybrid x-trem”, which is what they are choosing to call these bridges. I had asked about Piezos, but they told me that at the moment, there were no compatable piezos (unfortnuately!)

Please keep me updated on the piezo stuff for kahler!

Matt

The $900 quote was to a forum memember (Duero?) directly from Kahler, months prior to the NAMM show that brought Halo and Kahler together.

Piezos are supposed to be in the works, but nothing definite from Kahler yet. Folks over at Sevenstring.Org have talked about adding piezos to Kahler trems.

Ray

Can you give me more info on that? Where did you hear this from? How can I obtain one of these compound scale tremelos from kahler? Can you have piezos installed in it, etc.?

John

John – On their way to you…

One could really ask the guy who makes/made the cases, he ought to have the right measures. I have to mill/sand/file it down the rounded corners, bevels, as well to make it fit.
Hope you can get SOMETHING out of those shots. The folding rule that goes with the pictures is in inches which one clearly can see. If it’s exact to the millimeters, I don’t think matters that much.

If you don’t have seen a real Klein with all bevels, body curvatures and contours, that doesn’t really occur on the plan, I think you’re in for a major chore. The body is bevel-edged a lot. We couldn’t get that exactly right even if we looked at the real one, we had to go by feel, and sand it and then see how it felt. There’s no measures on those.

Good Luck.

/Mats

The funny thing is that we had to do this after the body wood was chunked out from the plan. We only discovered that it was too big afterwards.

I will return. Bringing out the plan now.

I’ll try to do my best in describing what was done. About 1 inch at the most where trimmed off of the upper bout. I mean peaked. The best thing to explain it is like this. If you look at the picture, theres a black screw on the white pickguard to the left right above the bridge pickup. If you take a string or core (not a guitar string, a thin ordinary…rope) and tape it to that one and stretch it out to the left of the body – make sure it’s long enough – and measure the longest instance you get when reaching the end of the body, somewhere where the body reaches under your armpit theres the longest distance. On the HARP guitar version we snapped off one inch there – start there and gradually went to zero as we moved forward towards the neck end of the body. This was quite, peculiar, because I thought that just raising the bodies upper part to a larger chunk would render the HARP guitar very unbalanced. You have to counterweight that with the lower part as well. Not so.

This is very very elusive, and I have not the cut out chunk left to send you a photo of. This is the only way I can explain it. But if you take the plan and place this “sting” where the pickups are, and do the same you can draw with a pen the same shape, but ONE INCH (2,5 cm) shorter at the greatest lenght. God this is awful description, but I have no scale 1:1 to show you. Below the neck, I mean to the right side where the controls are theres no difference at all. Anyway, the body of the Harp guitar isn’t say 1:1,234 scale larger in all, because it’s just the upper part of the body that accomodate the harp strings that has been enlarged.

I will return to you later, cause I’ll have to bring out the plan again, and just lay my original Klein over it and do a new dotted red line again where the original Klein lines goes. I am not afraid of ruining the plan in any way and I can send you some shots. Digital camera I have (as you see from above photos).

I will use the plan in the future, maybe, for original Klein sizes so I’ll have to dot lines anyway.

They even sent the package directly home to me with the singles bridges. It wasn’t a large pacakge. Even before I paid them. I could’ve scammed them if I liked but I didn’t…:-)

So far, the most expensive quote I’ve seen was for a Kahler Vibrato bridge/tailpiece for a compound scale nine-string. IIRC, it was only $900. Not bad actually when you consider what it is.

Ray