Replacing a Collings tailpiece with a James tailpiece
Has anyone ever taken off their Collings MT2 tailpiece and put on a James tailpiece? I was wondering how much work was involved. Did you just take out the screws and pull off the Collings tailpiece and the James tailpiece lined up perfect or did you have to take it to your luthier and have him fill the old hole and drill new holes for the James tailpiece. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that everything lines up perfect because I don’t want any additional holes put into a new mandolin just to install a nice engraved James tailpiece. My reason for doing this is I just don’t like the way you have to bend a string just to pull it through a Collings tailpiece. You would think as good as Collings is they would come up with a better design in their tailpiece.
One more question when you ordered the James tailpiece from Axiom did you tell them that you wanted the tailpiece to match the holes in a Collings tailpiece? I would really appreciate hearing your comments especially if you have tried this and any problems you encountered and if you recommend doing this….. Thanks
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