Luthier Parts & Tools

Designed for use on Telecaster ® style guitars Bigsby B16 Specifications

• Model Name: B-16
• Series: Original Kalamazoo Line
• Manufacturing Method: Sand Cast
• Manufacturing Material: Aluminum
• Approximate weight: 333 grams/ 11.7 oz.
• Overall Length: 8 3/8"/ 212.7 mm
• Overall Width: 4 1/4"/107.9 mm
• Arm adjusts with 1/8" Allen wrench and 5/16" socket wrench

Designed for use on arch top electric guitars. Original Kalamazoo Line.

Fender® Custom Shop’s hot-rodded take on a vintage pickup set has quickly become a modern classic. Built onto the core of 1950s Fender® single coil pickups, the Fat ‘50s are wound to enhance the bass response while maintaining a smooth midrange and the top end clarity and brilliance of the originals.

Designed for use on thin hollow body and semi-hollowbody guitars. Left-handed.

Designed for use on arch top electric guitars. The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric guitarists is attributed to Leo Fender, who also used the term “vibrato” to refer to what is really a tremolo effect.

• Model Name: B-7
• Series: Original Kalamazoo Line
• Manufacturing Method: Cast
• Manufacturing Material: Aluminum
• Approximate weight: 354 grams/12.5 oz.
• Overall Length: 8 3/4”/222.3 mm
• Overall Width: 3 5/8”/92.1 mm
• Arm adjusts with 1/8” Allen wrench and 5/16” socket wrench

Designed for use on thin hollow body and semi-hollowbody guitars
Bigsby B6 Specifications

• Model Name: B-6
• Series: Original Kalamazoo Line
• Manufacturing Method: Cast
• Manufacturing Material: Aluminum
• Approximate weight: 311 grams/11 oz.
• Overall Length: 9" /235 mm
• Overall Width: 3 5/8" / 92.1 mm
• Arm adjusts with 1/8" Allen wrench and 5/16" socket wrench

The B5, sometimes referred as the Bigsby “horseshoe” is designed for flat top solid body guitars. Attaching via four screws to a guitar’s top, the B5 is extremely versatile. B5s are common on many styles of guitars including SGs, Les Paul Jrs, Telecasters, and Rickenbacker 325s. Left-handed version.

• Model Name: B-5
• Series: Original Kalamazoo Line
• Manufacturing Method: Cast
• Manufacturing Material: Aluminum
• Approximate Weight: 287 Grams/10.1 oz.
• Overall Length: 4 3/4”/120.65mm
• Overall Width: 3 3/4”/95.3mm

This is the left-handed version of the Bigsby B3 designed for use on thin electric hollow and semi-hollow guitars. Mounting screws, arm spring, and washer included.

Single coil tone without the hum! Brilliant clarity, definition and harmonic attributes of a vintage Strat. Features special beveled edge Alnico 5 magnets and enamel-coated magnet wire, which produces the brilliant clarity, definition and harmonic attributes of a vintage Strat in a "Noiseless" package. Comes with potentiometers.

• DC Resistance: 9.8k
• Inductance: 3H

Fender part number: 099-2115-000

Designed for use on arch top electric guitars. Bigsby B7 Specifications

• Model Name: B-7
• Series: Original Kalamazoo Line
• Manufacturing Method: Cast
• Manufacturing Material: Aluminum
• Approximate weight: 354 grams/12.5 oz.
• Overall Length: 8 ¾" /222.3 mm
• Overall Width: 3 5/8" /92.1 mm
• Arm adjusts with 1/8" Allen wrench and 5/16" socket wrench

Bigsby B7 Includes:

• Tremolo
• Arm Assembly
• 6 Mounting Screws
• Spring
• Plastic Washer
• Installation Instructions

Designed for use on arched top electric guitars Bigsby B16 Specifications

• Model Name: B-12
• Series: Original Kalamazoo Line
• Manufacturing Method: Sand Cast
• Manufacturing Material: Aluminum
• Approximate weight: 344 grams/12.1 oz.
• Overall Length: 8 3/8" / 212.7 mm
• Overall Width: 3 5/8" / 92.1 mm
• Arm adjusts with 1/8" Allen wrench and 5/16" socket wrench

Designed for use on thin hollowbody and semi-hollowbody guitars Bigsby B11 Specifications

• Model Name: B-11
• Series: Original Kalamazoo Line
• Manufacturing Method: Sand Cast
• Manufacturing Material: Aluminum
• Approximate weight: 286 grams/10.1 oz.
• Overall Length: 7 11/16" /195.3 mm
• Overall Width: 3 11/16" / 93.7 mm
• Arm adjusts with 1/8" Allen wrench and 5/16" socket wrench

Replacement Vintage Stratocaster® neck with mostly vintage and a few subtle modern features like 21 medium jumbo frets, 10 inch radius, 1 5/8 inch nut width, a comfortable 'C' shaped profile and a honey tinted gloss finish. Rosewood finger board with a heel adjust truss rod location and 8.8 mm peg holes drilled for a vintage Kluson tuning machine as nature intended. Nut not included.
Fender licensed replacement neck. Heel width is 2 3/16".

A genuine Bigsby B5 vibrato with a modified string mounting bar that features counterbore holes for a string-through style rather than the original mounting pins. This version allows for quick and easy restrings.

Now you can install a Bigsby Vibrato on your American Standard Telecaster® style guitar without drilling any holes! The Vibramate V5-TEAS-1 Model Mounting Kit is designed for a Bigsby B5 Original Vibrato and will fit most American Standard Telecaster® guitars that have a 3-screw mount bridge. Vibramate The Vibramate V5-TEAS kit includes mounting hardware for the Bigsby B5 Vibrato and utilizes your existing Telecaster® pickup and mounting hardware. There is no need for drilling, soldering or removing the neck.

These overwound Tele pickups are constructed with AlNiCo 5 magnets and enamel coated magnet wire. The bridge pickup features height staggered magnets and a copper plated steel bottom plate for increased output, presence and midrange, while the nickel-silver cover on the neck pickup produces a clear warm tone that only a true Custom Shop Tele pickup can do. From Merle to Metal, the Texas Tele will demand their attention. Bridge:

• DC Resistance: 10.5k
• Inductance: 3.95H

Neck:

• DC Resistance: 9.5k
• Inductance: 3.3H

Fender part number: 099-2121-000

Designed for use on thin electric hollow and semi-hollow guitars Bigsby B3 Specifications

• Model Name: B-3
• Series: Original Kalamazoo Line
• Manufacturing Method: Sand Cast
• Manufacturing Material: Aluminum
• Approximate weight: 296 grams/10.4 oz.
• Overall Length: 7 5/8" /193.7mm
• Overall Width: 3 5/8" /92.1mm
• Arm adjusts with 1/8" Allen wrench and 5/16" socket wrench

Set of three single coil Stratocaster® pickups built to the same specifications as mid-1960s strat® pickups. These pickups feature period correct waxed, push-back, cloth wiring as well as a fiberboard bobbin construction. The staggered pole pieces use vintage style alnico 5 magnets for a balanced sound and focused dynamics.

Replacement Vintage Telecaster® neck with mostly vintage and a few subtle modern features like 21 medium jumbo frets, 10 in. radius, 1 5/8 in. nut width, a comfortable C shaped profile and a honey tinted gloss finish. Maple finger board with a heel adjust truss rod location and 8.8mm peg holes drilled for a vintage Kluson® tuning machine as nature intended. Nut not included. Fender Licensed replacement neck.

Vintage replacement neck for Fender® Stratocaster® guitars. This licensed Fender® neck combines the vintage appearance with some great modern features. It has the small peghead drilled to accept vintage Kluson® tuning keys. Honey gloss poly finish, 21 medium-jumbo frets, 10 in. fingerboard radius, single action truss rod installed from the back, and covered with a skunk stripe, adjusting at the heel just like the originals.

Lightning Series II. The Bigsby vibrato tailpiece is a type of vibrato device for electric guitar designed by Paul A. Bigsby. The device allows musicians to bend the pitch of notes or entire chords with their pick hand for various effects.

• Model Name: B-700
• Series: Lightning Series II
• Manufacturing Method: Die Cast
• Manufacturing Material: Aluminum
• Approximate weight: 345 grams/12.2 oz.
• Overall Length: 8 5/8"/ 219.1 mm
• Overall Width: 3 ¾"/95.3 mm
• Arm adjusts with 1/8" Allen wrench and 5/16" socket wrench

*Designed for use on flat top electric guitars

Bigsby Lightning Series Vibratos were created for players who want the Bigsby sound and "vibe", but for use on less expensive instruments.

This McNelly Stagger Swagger pickup features a nickel plated cover, a braided-shield/single-conductor wire, and a 1 15/16" string spacing.

This McNelly Stagger Swagger pickup features an open nickel plated cover, a braided-shield/single-conductor wire, and a 1 15/16" string spacing.

Replacement Telecaster® neck, 22 medium jumbo frets with headstock adjust double action truss rod and a 12 inch radius maple fingerboard. The nut width is 1 11/16 inch wide and pegholes are drilled at 10mm for a modern die cast type tuning machine but adapter bushings are available to reduce these hole sizes if you would like to mount vintage Kluson® tuning machines. A thin clear satin finish makes this the perfect replacement for your modern Telecaster®. Nut not included. Fender Licensed replacement neck.