Good morning all,
Over the years, I have owned many different Gibson guitars with the tuneomatic stop tail bridge.
I have always set the stop tail down tight to the body, as I like to bend strings and I want the downforce and I always assumed this is how it was meant to be done.
I had about 25 years of no Gibsons, but now that I once again have one, I set it up like always and yet, I see some players that raise the stop tail up off the body.
I also thread my strings through the stop tail, not wrap around it.
So my question to the group here is, what advantage is there to not grounding the stop tail?