Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Balducci's bridge

The above guitars are Rob Balducci's custom Ibanez, there are others, of course.

A closer look reveals a different or variant bridge in use instead of the established Edge models. The gear section of Mr. Balducci's homepage is currently under revision. Hopefully, he will shed light on this bridge make.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

That i believe is his "infamous hand rest".

http://www.ibanez87.it/english/interviews/e-rob-balducci.aspx

Fitch

subversion.sg said...

is it me or does he look older with more facial hair...? he he

Anonymous said...

Some early Jem models also have bridge with a hand rest.
http://www.jemsite.com/articles-
menu/jem-777-handrest/

Ijau D. Koceng said...

cool burst finish though... green, i like~

Anonymous said...

Too much wah can promote facial hair growth? hehehe

Those who follow his "lick of the week" videos can see the gradual change in his appearance.

Fitch

Steve Sandy said...

BTW: that closeup is Rob's Sleestack with an EdgePro bridge, with the handrest I made for him installed over it. I also made the one that's on Rob's BAL7 custom 7-string.

subversion.sg said...

dear sir- do you have like a custom shop for doing this? if so, any chance we can have 'em in ours?

Steve Sandy said...

I make them entirely by hand, in very limited numbers here and there.

I invite you to join Rob's forum, where I hang about and cover a lot of questions like this.
Click my name; it's linked to the forum URL.
Cheers.