SOLD - BIGSBY B5 FULLY CALLAHAM ENHANCED

jimkehoe · December 2018

PRICE REDUCED - £175.

Genuine B5 Bigsby that has been expertly upgraded with Callaham parts. All work carried out by Charlie Chandler.

Put on a Cabronita guitar I have briefly but never really used . I am now selling that guitar and feel the upgraded Bigsby is better as a stand alone item as it will immeasurably improve any guitar that you are considering fitting a B5 Bigsby to.

Following parts have been fitted:

Callaham Front Roller Upgrade Kit for Bigsby B5 and B7 units

All guitars equipped with a Bigsby B5, B7 and custom Fender B5 Vibratos suffer greatly from reduced frequency response and sustain because of the complete lack of quality of the front roller of the units. Our upgrade kits provides a solid, stainless steel front roller and axil that will widen the frequency response and sustain to where it should have always been. The roller is polished to a mirror finish and is grooved to maintain string alignment. This is a simple retrofit and pays huge dividends.

Callaham Upgraded Main String Shaft for Bigsby Vibratos

This upgrade eliminates the years of problems and frustration of a Bigsby Vibrato restringing. This again is a polished stainless steel shaft that is counterbored for the string ball ends. Thread the string through the hole and up to the tuner. Works for all models and comes with retaining clip.

Callaham 360 Arm Bracket for Bigsby Vibratos

This is a precision machined arm bracket that allows for full 360 rotation for the vibrato arm. This allows a player to position his picking hand without limit and maintain control of the vibrato.

From Charles Guitars: https://www.charlesguitars.co.uk/manufacturers/charles-guitars/bigsby-b5-fully-callaham-enhanced

BIGSBY B5 FULLY CALLAHAM ENHANCED

ITEM NUMBER: CH24080

This Bigsby B5 has been upgraded by us and is fitted with the following Callaham upgrade parts.

Callaham Front Roller:

All guitars equipped with a Bigsby B5 or B7 Vibrato suffer greatly from reduced frequency response and sustain because the standard roller is a piece of hollow tube with brass bushes at the end. This hollow tube is very poor at conducting the string vibrations to the body.

Callaham's upgrade kits provides a solid, stainless steel front roller and axil that will widen the frequency response and sustain to where it should have always been. The roller is polished to a mirror finish and is grooved to maintain string alignment. This is a simple retrofit and pays huge dividends.

Callaham Main String Shaft:

If you have a bigsby then you need this!! NO YOU REALLY DO. Why did no one do this ages ago

This upgrade eliminates the years of problems and frustration of a Bigsby Vibrato restringing. This again is a polished stainless steel shaft that is counterbored for the string ball ends. Thread the string through the hole and up to the tuner. Works for all models and comes with retaining clip.

Callaham 360 Arm Bracket:

Only Callaham could and would make this, machined from a block of aluminium and polished to perfection this is the final part for your bigsby upgrade

This is a precision machined arm bracket that allows for full 360 rotation for the vibrato arm. This allows a player to position his picking hand without limit and maintain control of the vibrato.

Bigsby Specifications:

MODEL NAME: B-5
SERIES: ORIGINAL KALAMAZOO LINE
MANUFACTURING METHOD: CAST
MANUFACTURING MATERIAL: ALUMINUM
APPROXIMATE WEIGHT: 287 GRAMS/10.1 OZ.
OVERALL LENGTH: 4 3/4”/120.65MM
OVERALL WIDTH: 3 3/4”/95.3MM

£306.00

£200 £185 £175ppg within the UK.

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