• Nov. 16, 2009 Update on Preordered Gold plated Callaham ABR-1 bridges taken from Oct. 5, 2009 to Oct. 25, 2009. The Gold ABR-1's should be back from plating this week. We will assemble and ship them ASAP. For those who did not preorder, you can get them from our dealers. If you are east of the Mississippi, contact Acme Guitar Works, west of the Mississippi, contact Specialty Guitars. In Europe contact ProGuitar in Germany and in Australia contact Wild Horse Guitars.   Dealer page.

  Price is expected to be $175.00 with vintage studs and $181.00 with Nashville studs. We will offer it again in mid 2010.

  This is the only page that will list the Gold ABR-1.

 

• Coming in Early 2010 More Lefty model Blocks. For all you Left-Handed players, we are going to make a very small run of Lefty American Standard enhanced Blocks and Lefty Mexican Standard enhanced Blocks at the beginning of the year. Normally this is a Special Order item and is expensive. Enough of you have asked and I do want everyone to be able to afford our parts. Price will be between $75.00 - $80.00 which is significantly less than a special order price. We will post when they are in stock as soon as they are ready. I will also have a few complete Left-handed Mexican bridge assemblies. So I hope this will help a lot of you.

 

• 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/thumbscrew kits for changing a traditional ABR-1 bridge and a special stud kit for converting 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
with Vintage Studs
Price $125.50

Callaham CNC Machined Steel Billet ABR-1
tun-o-matic bridge for Gibson guitars
with Nashville Conversion Studs
Price $130.50

Callaham CNC Machined Steel Billet ABR-1 tun-o-matic bridge for Gibson guitars