DLDTEX Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Greetings HOC Here is a question to the Heritage faithful. As stated before I used to own a 555 that I purchased from Wolfe Guitar. The wood and construction was great as you would expect from a post G*** Kalamazoo guitar. I bought the guitar 10-12 years ago. I was never a fan of the Schaller stop tail. Some people may like them and that is cool. Is there a replacement for the Schaller stop tail that doesn’t require a lot of work? I haven’t done a lot of research on the forum so this may have been answered before. Thanks for any assistance that you can provide. I have seen some great opportunities on used Heritage guitars but I was turn off because of my memories of the 555. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitArtMan Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Any of the standard stop tails will drop in without modificattion: Gototh, Schaller (yes they make norrmal stop tails), Faber, TonePros, etc. I replaced the stock Schaller bridge/taile piece on a previous 535 I owned with TonePros and it just dropped right in. BTW, the 535 you bought from me has factory TonePros hardware, so you wont need to change that! :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoslate Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 This has been a frequent topic here. Seems the consensus has been that the Tone Pros stuff is quality, many here having gone that route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulk1 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 This has been a frequent topic here. Seems the consensus has been that the Tone Pros stuff is quality, many here having gone that route. to that. Got locking TonePros on the Millie NFH. Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundersteel Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I've got the Faber hardware on mine--love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectrum13 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Faber and Tone Pros on mine! :angel: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cod65 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 to that. Got locking TonePros on the Millie NFH. Love it. same here, locking post and 'al-lu-minium' tail. Lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentrocks Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 i'm the black sheep...i like the original Schaller tails and roller bridges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuitArtMan Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 i'm the black sheep...i like the original Schaller tails and roller bridges That's because you don't know any better... :wink: Sorry, couldn't resist!!! ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentrocks Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 That's because you don't know any better... :wink:Sorry, couldn't resist!!! ;D you are right though....i'm the kind of person that likes to keep things "factory original" .....except for pups. and its not like i'm doing gigs every weekend either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cod65 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 yeah, I'm with you on the 'factory original' bit to the extent that I keep all the original stuff in a box on the shelf :wink: I dont mind the Schaller stuff, just seems unnecessarily complicated- not really sure what the non-microtuning tails have those little extra pieces for. I was actually thinking of trying to carve my own from a piece of really hard wood, at one point . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shook494 Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Tone Pro stuff on both of mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveomatic Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I just posted a question on a different thread about Stop Tails. I have a 1994 Roy Clark and I want to put a "Gibson, Fine Tuning Tail" on it or a "Tonepro" but it looks like the Original one on my Roy Clark has the Inserts closer together than that of a Les Paul or Gibson 335 etc. Is that possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spectrum13 Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I find that hard to believe. Since the guy that answers the phone at Heritage designed that fine tune tailpiece AND was there when your Roy went out the door. I would ask him... BTW I spoke with Ren today. He asked how many on the HOC plus was not aware of the gallery pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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