Filling the stud holes on your Standard, and buying and installing the cool new bridge properly and refinishing the top might cost you almost as much. So if this doesn't do it for you, my next suggestion would be to buy a used SG special that features this wrapover bridge, and leave your Standard alone. I like what I hear, and get good intonation. Top wrapping a TOM tailpiece is an attempt to get the best of both worlds, and it works for me. The TOM bridge has more technical precision for tweaking intonation, but the wrapover just sounds so good, there has always been a demand for them. People favor the old wrapover bridge because of the tone that these have. Just change your strings, insert the strings from the front, wrap them over the top of the tailpiece, check that the twisted part of the string doesn't emerge from the rear of the tailpiece (slide a string bead on first if they protrude), screw the tailpiece down very low, or tight to the deck, tune to pitch and listen. before you start carving up your SG Standard, here's a suggestion that you can try and doesn't cost anything or involve any plugging of stud holes with dowels or refinishing guitar tops.
2009 GIBSON SG PROJECT INSTALL
With all that said, my question is, will I be able to install this bridge (whether I do the work or not) and keep the guitar within the acceptable tolerances for proper intonation and tuning stability?
I'm also open to people arguing me out of it, albeit within sound reasoning. What I do care about is renduring the guitar unplayable and having to have some major luthier work done to bring it back to normal. If I do replace the bridge, do I have to angle the bridge as such, or can I fit the new post straight in line with nut? I know this is going to de-value the guitar, so from a economical perspective, its a no, but I don't care about that. Now all the photos I see of the 70's style SG's the bridge is perfectly parallel, with no rise/run away from the nut.
The ABR is angled so the low E string is futher away from the nut. My question concerns the position of the new bridge. I've been thinking about for a while now and wanted to post my thoughts before I get crazy. I realize I'll have to drill and do all that stuff. I have a 2009 Gibson SG Standard and I want to remove the stock APR-1 style bridge and replace it with a Tone Pros style or Bad Ass style wraparound bridge.
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