Talk:Stoptail bridge

GeoJet,

This article is great. Thanks!

I do hope it is proper use of the talk page to say this.

Zyggo

Zygmorph (talk) 22:44, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Z, Thanks for the kind words. I hope people find it useful. The next additions are the lyre and trapeze variations.

It is a fine article. I particularly like the reference to the 'mysterious mojo' ascribed to this hardware and that indeed tends to surround much speculative understanding of the guitar and its components. However, the article contradicts itself and this highlights an error. In the Construction section it is stated that a stoptail bridge has two parts which is certainly correct. Then the article goes on to state that these parts are separate. That is clearly not correct. In fact, accompanying the description of the 'wrap around' variant is a photograph clearly showing a one-piece stoptail bridge. BellwetherToday (talk) 16:22, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

It is perhaps understandable that the article focuses mainly on the McCarty style Gibson bridge. It should be recognized, since there is an entire article with which to accomplish this, that there are many designs of stoptail bridges. The main article should be consistent and objective. The McCarty bridge is a variant of the type itself. BellwetherToday (talk) 16:22, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

While not the most common material, ebony, rosewood and other dense hardwoods are used to make lightweight stoptail pieces. BellwetherToday (talk) 16:22, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

External Links

For the most part these appear to simply be a list of advertisements for a few hardware manufacturers. Rather than simply delete them all, it would be best to make substitutions from non-commercial or less commercial sources. If I or someone else cannot make appropriate substitutions within a week, then the current links, with the exception of the last one labelled "good discussion of top wrapping strings" should be peremptorily deleted. BellwetherToday (talk) 20:22, 8 January 2012 (UTC)