Six holes were drilled through the bridge’s rear lip for strings to thread through and pass straight over the saddles. This only lasted until 1959, but Jimmy Page’s Led Zep Tele was a top loader and Jim Campilongo plays one, too. If you try a top loader bridge, or simply drill ...
Bridge: Custom-wound Jimmy Page Telecaster single-coil Brand: Fender Active or passive pickups: Passive Series or parallel: Parallel Controls Control layout: Master volume, tone Pickup switch: 3-way Hardware Bridge type: Fixed Bridge design: Top-loader bridge with threaded steel saddles ...
Jeff’s borrowed blonde Tele (now owned by Muse's Matt Bellamy) was loaded with aSeymour DuncanHot Tele Lead pickup in the bridge position that he added himself. The 'Top Loader' part of the '80s model's name refers to the bridge – the strings pass through the bridge only instead of...
wrote Brad Tolinski inLight & Shade: Conversations With Jimmy Page. The instrument was the main guitar used on Led Zeppelin and was later used to record the iconic solo for “Stairway to Heaven."