Faber ABRN Nashville Bridge

Faber's own FAQ states Epiphone and other imported guitars use bridge posts that screw into bushings, not original Nashville inserts, and require Faber conversion bridge studs (NSWKIT, BSWKIT, or iNsert) to use any Faber bridge including the ABRN. NSWKIT is a straightforward stud swap with no drilling. BSWKIT is more invasive, needs the body inserts removed and tapped. The plain ABRN alone is not a drop-in for this guitar.

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Faber's own FAQ states Epiphone and other imported guitars use bridge posts that screw into bushings, not original Nashville inserts, and require Faber conversion bridge studs (NSWKIT, BSWKIT, or iNsert) to use any Faber bridge including the ABRN. NSWKIT is a straightforward stud swap with no drilling. BSWKIT is more invasive, needs the body inserts removed and tapped. The plain ABRN alone is not a drop-in for this guitar.

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Faber's own FAQ states Epiphone and other imported guitars use bridge posts that screw into bushings, not original Nashville inserts, and require Faber conversion bridge studs (NSWKIT, BSWKIT, or iNsert) to use any Faber bridge including the ABRN. NSWKIT is a straightforward stud swap with no drilling. BSWKIT is more invasive, needs the body inserts removed and tapped. The plain ABRN alone is not a drop-in for this guitar. Handedness is not a separate concern, a Tune-o-matic bridge has no inherent left or right orientation.

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Faber's own FAQ states Epiphone and other imported guitars use bridge posts that screw into bushings, not original Nashville inserts, and require Faber conversion bridge studs (NSWKIT, BSWKIT, or iNsert) to use any Faber bridge including the ABRN. NSWKIT is a straightforward stud swap with no drilling. BSWKIT is more invasive, needs the body inserts removed and tapped. The plain ABRN alone is not a drop-in for this guitar.

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Faber's own FAQ states Epiphone and other imported guitars use bridge posts that screw into bushings, not original Nashville inserts, and require Faber conversion bridge studs (NSWKIT, BSWKIT, or iNsert) to use any Faber bridge including the ABRN. NSWKIT is a straightforward stud swap with no drilling. BSWKIT is more invasive, needs the body inserts removed and tapped. The plain ABRN alone is not a drop-in for this guitar.

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Faber's own FAQ states Epiphone and other imported guitars use bridge posts that screw into bushings, not original Nashville inserts, and require Faber conversion bridge studs (NSWKIT, BSWKIT, or iNsert) to use any Faber bridge including the ABRN. NSWKIT is a straightforward stud swap with no drilling. BSWKIT is more invasive, needs the body inserts removed and tapped. The plain ABRN alone is not a drop-in for this guitar.

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Faber's own FAQ states Epiphone and other imported guitars use bridge posts that screw into bushings, not original Nashville inserts, and require Faber conversion bridge studs (NSWKIT, BSWKIT, or iNsert) to use any Faber bridge including the ABRN. NSWKIT is a straightforward stud swap with no drilling. BSWKIT is more invasive, needs the body inserts removed and tapped. The plain ABRN alone is not a drop-in for this guitar.

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Faber's own guidance says import guitars with bushing-mounted posts need Faber conversion bridge studs to take their bridges. They don't list this model as a direct fit for the ABRN.

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Faber's own guidance says import guitars with bushing-mounted posts need Faber conversion bridge studs to take their bridges. They don't list this model as a direct fit for the ABRN.

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Faber's own guidance says import guitars with bushing-mounted posts need Faber conversion bridge studs to take their bridges. They don't list this model as a direct fit for the ABRN.

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Faber's own guidance says import guitars with bushing-mounted posts need Faber conversion bridge studs to take their bridges. They don't list this model as a direct fit for the ABRN.

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Faber's own guidance says import guitars with bushing-mounted posts need Faber conversion bridge studs to take their bridges. They don't list this model as a direct fit for the ABRN.

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Faber's own guidance says import guitars with bushing-mounted posts need Faber conversion bridge studs to take their bridges. They don't list this model as a direct fit for the ABRN.

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Faber state the ABRN fits Nashville Gibsons up to the 2012 model year, and that later models need Faber's Nashville conversion posts or inserts (NSWKIT or the iNsert Plus). This guitar is a post-2012 model.

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Faber state the ABRN fits Nashville Gibsons up to the 2012 model year, and that later models need Faber's Nashville conversion posts or inserts (NSWKIT or the iNsert Plus). This guitar is a post-2012 model.

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Faber state the ABRN fits Nashville Gibsons up to the 2012 model year, and that later models need Faber's Nashville conversion posts or inserts (NSWKIT or the iNsert Plus). This guitar is a post-2012 model.

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This is Faber's wider Nashville-spec bridge, and this guitar uses the narrower vintage-correct ABR-1 post spacing. Fitting a Nashville bridge means new, wider-spaced post holes.

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Faber state the ABRN fits Nashville Gibsons up to the 2012 model year, and that later models need Faber's Nashville conversion posts or inserts (NSWKIT or the iNsert Plus). This guitar is a post-2012 model.

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Nashville-spec bridges are built for wider post spacing, roughly 74.5mm nominal versus about 73.7mm on Gibson's ABR-1, and typically use a different, larger stud diameter. Sources describe the spacing gap alone as sometimes forgiving, but the stud diameter mismatch is the real blocker, this is not a straightforward retrofit onto ABR-1 posts.

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Nashville-spec bridges are built for wider post spacing and typically a different stud diameter than this guitar's factory ABR-1 posts.

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Faber state the ABRN fits Nashville Gibsons up to the 2012 model year, and that later models need Faber's Nashville conversion posts or inserts (NSWKIT or the iNsert Plus). This guitar is a post-2012 model.

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Nashville-spec bridges are built for wider post spacing and typically a different stud diameter than this guitar's factory ABR-1 posts. Not a straightforward retrofit without reworking the bushings.

Fitted one of these? Tell us how it went

Faber state the ABRN fits Nashville Gibsons up to the 2012 model year, and that later models need Faber's Nashville conversion posts or inserts (NSWKIT or the iNsert Plus). This guitar is a post-2012 model.

Fitted one of these? Tell us how it went

Faber's own guidance says import guitars with bushing-mounted posts need Faber conversion bridge studs to take their bridges. They don't list this model as a direct fit for the ABRN.

Fitted one of these? Tell us how it went