Aside from the issue of breaking strings, is there anything else problematical about having a sharper break angle on a Bluesbird?
Mine is a '97, and it is set up with about 1/8" of bolt exposed.
I have sometimes wondered if, by screwing it all the way down, I could get more acoustic sound out of the carved top. But I have yet to perform that experiment.
On the 2001 that I sold a couple months ago, the tailpiece was way-high. So I screwed it down to the position on my '97, figuring that maybe I knew a little better than the young lady at the music store who did the setup before I bought it. I knew that it was the only BB she'd ever touched, though I also suspected she knew considerably more, generally, about electric guitars.
Any further instruction or thoughts, Hide and others?