Fano RB6T style guitar - bridge and pickup options

John_P

Looking at the Fano RB6T style guitar,  I'm torn between the various options for bridges and pickups - I can see several styles I like the idea of - a standard tele style bridge and pickup, but a simple wrapover or a bigsby would also look very cool though imo. 
What do we think suits the body style best?   

earwighoney

I'm a fan of the Tele 3 saddle bridge as I find there are a lot of different options (steel, brass etc), top load/string through, intonation works perfectly for me (maybe not for everyone), quick to adjust to string height, and had a 54mm string spacing (the sweet spot for my needs).

A full or half Tele bridge would work for T-Pickups or Gibson ones.

I'd recommend having a look at the Waterslide guitars Insta page, he has a new range of single pickup RB6 style guitars with various pickups and bridges.

FWIW, my favourite sounding is the one with the Thunderbird

hessodreamy

I’ve got one A build in progress and am going for jazzmaster bridge and trem, firebird bridge pickup and a gold foil (mini hum size) in the neck, both from the creamery. I have no idea how this will all fit together but I’m excited. 

John_P

Thanks @earwighoney he has lots of cool looking guitars that should give inspiration.  

@hessodreamy that is going be a great combination, I’d be excited too.   I’ll do a bit more checking out the jazz master trem, I’ve not had one before so I was leaning towards a Bigsby if I go for a trem.   

grungebob

In that “style” I like this a lot 

Lebarque

Tele bridge, Firebird neck. Simples.

hessodreamy

Lebarque said:

Tele bridge, Firebird neck. Simples.

I gotta confess that that arrangement looks sexy af and was probably my head-turner on the rb6. Just that personal experience says tele bridge is not for me. 

YellowLedBetterMan

Lebarque said:

Tele bridge, Firebird neck. Simples.

I was thinking of putting a mini humbucker in my black Tele. This is making it even more tempting.

hessodreamy

Actually @earwighoney the waterslide stuff looks great. Apart from a lot of gold foils in general he seems to use the mojo gold foil humbuckers which always seem to sound awesome. I may end up with one of them in the neck if I'm feeling brave with a router.

earwighoney

hessodreamy said:

Actually @earwighoney the waterslide stuff looks great. Apart from a lot of gold foils in generate he seems to use the mojo gold foil humbuckers which always seem to sound awesome. I may end up with one of them in the neck if I'm feeling brave with a router.

Waterslide seems to be Mojo fan no.1!

Have a look at his YT page for some of the other Mojo Pickups he uses. The Kay Kleenex sounds great as well but the Strat with 3 Hersheys has some of the finest clean tones of his pickups (to my ears)

Loobs

grungebob said:

In that “style” I like this a lot 

Awesome guitar. So many cool design features on it.