jberry@xxxxxxxx wrote:
A Les Paul has a curved fretboard. It is curved for variuous reasons but it all boils down to it make a guitar easier to play, as it fits your hands better and does not "fret out" with wide string bends. As such the bridge on a Les Paul is also slightly curved to match the fretboard. Different years and different guitars used different curvature radii. Almost all electric guitars have some curvature so a Les Paul is nothing special in this way.
True, but the typical 12" radius of the LP's fretboard certainly does not make it any more condusive to bowing ! As opposed to say a violin's 42 mm.
As far as wrapping the string over the tailpiece, I recall reading once , that, in respect to your binding comment, it allowed for easier bending of strings down at the tail end as opposed to the nut job Jimmy would do during HB solos.
Still would like to see where it is definatively stated that Jimmy's #2 was modified in this way.....other than the web....which is NOT the alpha omega of facts.
Where's Jimmy when you need, him....oh yeah, practicing for Montreux.Which BTW Josh, is off NJ turnpike exit 14, Newark Airport....flights board at gate 42. I hear Sunila's making canapes.