Bridge Post Conversion Set, Nashville to ABR1, M5/.140, Steel, Nickel

Want to fit an ABR-1 bridge to a guitar built for a Nashville bridge? These posts screw into the M5 anchors in the guitar's top, like standard Nashville posts, but the top of each is a smooth .140" post, the size of an ABR-1 bridge's post holes. They look essentially like traditional Nashville posts, just with the smaller post top. Steel, nickel plated, with a pair of matching anchors. Made in the USA.

Details

How it mounts. The anchors press into the guitar's top, the posts screw into the anchors, and the ABR-1 bridge sits on the posts. To set the bridge height, turn the thumbwheels.

Not for Nashville bridges. These look a lot like the older Nashville posts, which had a 4 mm top, but they are smaller and won't work properly with a Nashville bridge. The top of these posts is approx. .140", the diameter of a 6-32 screw; a 4 mm post is .157". A difference of .017" might seem like hardly any, but it matters more than you might think: a Nashville bridge with 4 mm holes will move around too much on these posts to be satisfactory.

No hex socket. These posts are adjusted by their thumbwheels only. For the same posts with a 2 mm hex socket in the top, which lets you raise the bridge with a hex key even under string tension, see TS-TOM-9281K.

Anchors included. The anchors are steel, nickel plated, the same as the posts. Handy for a new build, or a guitar whose anchors are missing. If your guitar already has anchors installed, you'll usually just use those with the new posts.

Prefer separate thumbwheels? Our TS-ABR-9000K conversion posts are plain threaded posts that screw into the same M5 anchors and take ABR-1 thumbwheels.

Specs

• Converts Nashville anchors to take an ABR-1 bridge
• M5 x 0.8 thread
• .140" smooth post top (fits ABR-1 post holes)
• Steel, nickel plated
• Includes 2 posts and 2 anchors, all steel, nickel plated
• Fits guitars with Nashville anchors, 1974 to date
• Dimensions: see the drawing in the images
• Made in the USA