Oahu Squareneck bridge

The metal pyramid bridge on my old Oahu is lifting slightly about 1mm on the treble end,I noticed it seems to be only attached to the top by 2 bolts on the inside.Would I be right in thinking all I need to do is tighten the 2 bolts or is there more to it.How important to tone is it that the bridge needs to be perfectly flat as the top also has a very slight bulge behind the bridge however that may disappear with pulling the bridge back in like. Cheers

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Permalink Reply by Rob Mercure on December 28, 2009 at 9:35am

Kevin,

Most of the Oahu's I've seen - a limited number I'll admit - have been tailpiece flattops made for slide. Being a square neck your's is for slide so if you can try a tailpiece w/o damage to the instrument it might work. In general I wouldn't recommend this but Oahu seemed to use it often.

Rob

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Permalink Reply by Neil Russell on January 12, 2010 at 5:34pm

I have an old Oahu square neck and it had the same problem. I took off the bridge and made a thin Aluminium plate to place inside on the bridge plate. I then tightened up the bolts again. This straightened out the top and more importantly improved the tone and sustain.