Bigsby tail pieces

Jason-Ely

Does anyone know where I can get Bigsby tail pieces specifically the B5 tail piece for a Gibson + Epiphone Les paul standard. I'm situated in Cape Town.

I have the option of importing them from overseas but that is going to cost an arm and a leg!

singemonkey

It'll probably wind up cheaper than local if you get in on one of the stewmac (steward macdonald parts suppliers) orders that people on this forum periodically do. I ordered my B7 from them along with some other parts.

You may be interested to know that you can get cheaper cast versions:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bridges,_tailpieces/Electric_guitar_tremolos/Bigsby_Vibrato_Tailpieces/Bigsby_B50_Vibrato.html

What are you putting it on?

Jason-Ely

I thought it would come down to StewMac ☹. I was just hoping that we would have them somewhere in South Africa.

I want to put them on my Gibson SG and Epiphone Les Paul Standard. I'll most probably want to purchase another Gibson soon so I will most probably need 3 tail pieces.

The question is to skimp or not to skimp? Should I go with the origanl B5 Kalamazoo sand cast or the new Lighting series Die cast?

Is there a difference?