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| I'm just about to get hold of a UKII with a missing plastuc (urelite) cover for the tailpiece...
I was wondering whether anyone here has one they would be willing to part with.
All the best |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Probably not but I bet there are members who could make you one. |
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| Perhaps I'd be better off looking for a whole tailpiece? |
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Location: NW Washington State | Yes, you'll probably need to buy a whole bridge just to get the black plastic (not urelite, that's the UKII body) cover. Then you could sell the old bridge to someone who has none. I haven't seen anyone making the cover or offering it by itself.
Later UKIIs have an all-metal bridge with no cover.
-Steve W. |
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Location: Jet City | As long as you have the posts for the all metal one, it should work too. I think... someone wanna confirm deny that? |
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| An all metal one would work, but mine is a very early model so I'd prefer and older style, but it would be great to have full piece of kit either way... |
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Location: NW Washington State | I've put the heavy chrome version on my Deacon, fits fine, but you do need the posts that come with the bridge. On a UKII it might leave a hole in the back since there's no tilt adjustment on the newer bridge.
Does the UKII you're looking at have a pickguard? If it's an early version it might have had one. |
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| It has a hole in the back for bridge adjustment and a tiny hole where the pickguard would fix in the underside of the lower bout. I suppose it lost it at some point during its history....anyone got one to spare?
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Interesting about the pickguards... look at the hole closely... was it ever used? Most in my experience were not. While I never did ask the reason, they stopped putting on the pickguards at an early point in the run, but the bodies were already done. I have seen many/most where there is a pin-hole that would have been the starter hole for the screw, but it's still just a pin hole, never having been used. |
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| Hi Mr Ovation,
There was definitely a pickgurad fitted on my UK II. There is a shallow indentation where the metal hardware pressed into the urelite surrounding the hole on the bottom of the lower bout.
I'd love to find an appropriate pickguard to return the instrument to its former glory. |
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WTB - urelite (black plastic) cover for UKII tailpiece.
