Sitar bridge for Tune-o-Matic Electric Guitars

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The Sitar-o-Matic is designed to make your electric guitar mimic the sounds of a sitar. Simply wedge it between your Tune-o-Matic bridge and your bridge pickup! When strumming or plucking hard, the strings will slap off the sitar insert, adding that characteristic sitar buzz. The sitar bridge insert and 3 different spacers are pretty small and will take only an hour or two to print altogether. I printed in PLA at 30% infill which has been strong enough and hasn't shown any issues at this point. Disclaimers: Intonation will definitely be whack on the higher frets - this is interfering with the way your instrument's bridge normally functions. It will not fit on all electric guitars identically. This fits perfectly on a Schecter C-1 or Omen 6. If your guitar has less space between the bridge and bridge pickup, you can scale it down on the y-axis to fit. (My ES-335 has very little space between the bridge and it may not work as well if scaled down too much. I don't have a Les Paul to test, but if someone could share the correct scaling I'm sure others would appreciate it!) It is very finnicky to set up. Bridge height varies from instrument to instrument, so multiple spacers have been included to mess around and see what size works best. It's quite tricky to get all 6 strings buzzing evenly, but you should be able to get usable sounds from at least a couple strings without too much trouble!