Graph TechResoMax NVt Tailpiece Nickel

The reason I bought this was to hopefully trim some weight off a guitar, and I figured it would go nicely with the NV2 bridge because they're supposedly made from the same special alloy. My existing tailpiece was already a Gotoh Featherweight, but I figured this couldn't be significantly heavier. (It's not.)The first thing I noticed is that the faces of the mounting posts looked rough, as though they were not properly finished before plating. The posts already installed on my guitar were mirror-polished, so I decided to stick with those.Before swapping tails I decided to weigh them each out of curiosity. I assumed GraphTech's new research must have resulted in something better than (or at least comparable to) Gotoh's old aluminum formula, but I was disappointed to find the GraphTech tail was 6 grams heavier than the Gotoh. (This is pretty minor, and has nothing to do with my product rating.)Even if I had wanted to use my Gotoh posts with the GraphTech tail: the GraphTech posts (and receptacles in the tail for those posts) are narrow, so I would only have been able to use the GraphTech tail with their included posts, or I could have used the Gotoh tail with the (ugly) GraphTech posts. Obviously GraphTech wants people to use their posts so that the magnets work, thus they are a special size; too bad the posts I received were so unattractive.(The GraphTech posts were actually each a little over 1 gram lighter than my stock/Gotoh posts -- likely because they are narrower -- so I probably would have used all the GraphTech stuff if those posts had looked better, accepting the few extra grams of imperceptible weight gain. I'm guessing Gotoh tail itself was potentially lighter because of the wider post slots, and those posts were heavier because they were thicker. I'm sure if I had weighed Gotoh posts, tail, and bushings together and compared them with the combined weight of the same GraphTech parts it would have been within a few grams, and pretty negligible overall.)The magnets are a cute gimmick -- more important on a stop tail than the bridge, I'd argue -- but I wasn't going to live with ugly posts I'd look at every day for a little gimmick I'd rarely notice.I am returning this as defective, and hope it's a one-off quality-control mistake.(Update: GraphTech customer service wanted to claim that the rough finish on the post faces could have been from package mishandling; that "maybe the tailpiece got scratched," even after I sent photos which clearly depict the plating applied over machine tool marks. I guess I'm done with GraphTech products, and will drop another star off this review.)

Fit great. Very tight but a little push and it went right on. I’m guessing due to plating thickness. I’ve had it around a month now. It’s not wearing at all yet with an hour or more a day use. It looks awesome and matched the graph tech bridge exactly. It is lighter. I can’t tell much with it installed. I don’t thing it helped with sustain. My guitar sustained forever prior. That by the way is a 2018 Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy. I installed it using the posts that were already pressed in the guitar and it worked out great. Also it says on the package assembled in Canada with Canadian and Chinese components.

I was disappointed. I WISH they would come up with a standard thread for the studs. I do not want to have to rip out my current stud from my LP Standard just to put this in. I simply want to screw the studs in and mount the tailpiece.If you are ok with yanking the studs, go for it. Otherwise, get the Kluson.

Actually fits in directly (with a mallet) into my Epiphone Les Paul Special II and Xaviere XV-900

Out of the package it did not align with the existing studs on my Epiphone Florentine. I guess all epi's are not made to the same specs. Install required making the holes larger on the tail piece to make it fit. Turned out not to be a simple replacement.

Solid triple chrome platted. Very well designed.

This does not fit an Epiphone LP 100

This will not fit a 2018 Epiphone SG Pro 1966 limited addition custom.