Strat Trem

ibmorjamn

ibmorjamn

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Link to my build:

Oh no..Something New

Not a Squire. My new Warmoth neck if they ever decide to ship, could be 10 days is going to have a very different look thanks to GFS sale. XGP body , blemished.
www.thetonerooms.com

I have a love / hate relationship with strat tremolo’s.
The major problem I have is palm muting and the “E”, “A” Allen screws digging in to my palm, hate it.

So stock Trem. not going to happen.
Floyd’s are of course better in many ways but in theory I am building a USA Fender with no authentic parts.

The other thing is my budget is not going to include the Floyd.
So the Wilkinson/Gotoh VS-100N Tremolo is probably going to do the job. It looks like they addressed the set screw issue.
 
ibmorjamn said:
Link to my build:

Oh no..Something New

Not a Squire. My new Warmoth neck if they ever decide to ship, could be 10 days is going to have a very different look thanks to GFS sale. XGP body , blemished.
www.thetonerooms.com

I have a love / hate relationship with strat tremolo’s.
The major problem I have is palm muting and the “E”, “A” Allen screws digging in to my palm, hate it.

So stock Trem. not going to happen.
Floyd’s are of course better in many ways but in theory I am building a USA Fender with no authentic parts.

The other thing is my budget is not going to include the Floyd.
So the Wilkinson/Gotoh VS-100N Tremolo is probably going to do the job. It looks like they addressed the set screw issue.
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Gotoh sells a licensed FR version for about the same coin.
Or there's the FR Special series (cast saddle parts- not machined) in the same price range.
I put a special in my walnut Explorer clone.
I still have the router templates if you're (or anyone's) interested.
 
I’m not all that great with the palm mute thing anyway…. But for sure I’m better at it with my G400 and Viking than I am on my Strat. Basically, I just don’t even try on the Strat anymore.
 
fitz said:
Gotoh sells a licensed FR version for about the same coin.
Or there's the FR Special series (cast saddle parts- not machined) in the same price range.
I put a special in my walnut Explorer clone.
I still have the router templates if you're (or anyone's) interested.
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That might be an option. I kind of don’t want to carve in to it yet, well when it ever gets here.
 
Tele bridges same way.Trip to the hardware store for shorter set screws.no more tore up hands.
 
I hope I made a good choice. I got it at about the lowest price even with shipping from Tokyo! I would guess 2 weeks or more.
 
iblive said:
I’m not all that great with the palm mute thing anyway…. But for sure I’m better at it with my G400 and Viking than I am on my Strat. Basically, I just don’t even try on the Strat anymore.
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I’m not great at it either but those screws are demonic.
 
When I had that issue with my Tele I just shimmed the neck to give it a little bit of an angle so I could raise the saddles up some which made the saddle adjustment screws lower and out of the way. Also made the guitar more comfortable for me to play because it raised the strings up higher off the body. I don't like that cramped feel when the strings sit low to the body, that's one of the main reasons I love Les Pauls, the strings sit higher up off the body because of the neck angle.
 
DirtySteve said:
When I had that issue with my Tele I just shimmed the neck to give it a little bit of an angle so I could raise the saddles up some which made the saddle adjustment screws lower and out of the way. Also made the guitar more comfortable for me to play because it raised the strings up higher off the body. I don't like that cramped feel when the strings sit low to the body, that's one of the main reasons I love Les Pauls, the strings sit higher up off the body because of the neck angle.
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That’s cool, I might look at that on my other guitars. I hopefully cured that with this Trem.
 
@DirtySteve , the other thing I forgot to say is you are not alone with string height. I like the strings to not be on the frets also.
I never knew it had significant tone difference but according to Malmsteen the notes sustain better with string height.
 
I have been playing the Harley Benton HSS matte black a lot lately.

Something I have been doing and had not noticed until today is I palm mute just in front of the screws.
 
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