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US 10,475,422 B1Granted
Intonation tool for fine tuning bridge
AssigneeMeister Works, Inc.
InventorShinjiro Hirayama
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Abstract
The angle adjustment structure of intonation tools for guitar bridges which have fine tuners. There are intonation tools for guitar bridges which have fine tuners like U.S. Pat. No. 4,497,236, but these bridges have some patterns of baseplate portion, so it is difficult to match to some patterns of baseplate portion by one intonation tool. This invention makes the intonation tool capable of matching to some patterns of baseplate portion by giving angle adjustment structure.
Claims3
An intonation tool for a fine tuning bridge, comprising:
- a slider which is capable of being locked to a main saddle of the fine tuning bridge;
- a base part which is threadedly engaged with the slider by a bolt/nut mechanism and slidably supports the slider so as to pull the slider to an opposite side of strings;
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- a leg part which is capable of being locked to the fine tuning bridge at the opposite side of the strings with respect to the main saddle and is supported by the base part so as to be capable of changing an angle with respect to the base part, wherein
- the leg part is rotatably supported by the base part so as to be capable changing the angle with respect to the base part by an angle adjustment mechanism.
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