If I were to get a Strat it would be a hardtail model.
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Guitar players corner!
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Where there's a will there's a way
Right now, I'm having a block. A senior moment
This is the way it came — I have no desire to change it
When I had my PRS, only once did I attach the arm "just to see if it works". 
Where there's a will there's a way
Right now, I'm having a block. A senior moment
This is the way it came — I have no desire to change it
Wow! No love for "The 7ender Float", I see!
While getting a 7ender bridge to work correctly and not one's strings out of tune is difficult, I enjoy the challenge and because I'm such a contrarian by nature, I enjoy using them with a float (just like Jimi did).
I can offer a little "trick" which, anecdotal, seems to work reasonably well:
When you're using your tremolo arm, if you can, make the very last move a quick (very quick) half of a dive bomb. How far down you go isn't as important as how quickly you snap it down and allow it to snap itself back up.
That seems to help the tuning issue, a little bit.
See the losers in the best bars,
Meet the winners in the dives
Meet the winners in the dives
I have a trio of hard-working whammers. Not a worry in the world
See the losers in the best bars,I have a trio of hard-working whammers. Not a worry in the world
Meet the winners in the dives
Full disclosure: I only have two tremolo-equipped guitars which don't have a locking nut. My (aforementioned) 2003 Ibanez SA260 FM in purple and my 1993 7ender Strat'.
The Ibanez caused me fits before I finally got it right. It would go horribly out of tune, if I looked at the tremolo bar the wrong way. It gave me fits.
My guitar tech at the time told me about a "self lubricating" nut. I'd never heard of any such thing, but now that I know a bit more about guitar techery, I'm assuming it's a graphite nut. We all know the "pencil 'lead' trick". If treating the nut with a pencil is a temporary fix, why not use a nut which needs no such treatment?
Yes, the nut wears down over time, but so do all nuts (except perhaps the brass ones?).
All strats here. The red one was my second. I've had that one for ages. I ditched the first one which was a fender but had a factory-fitted locking-trem and lace sensors in it — had more moving parts, grub screws and such, than a Sherman tank. And I couldn't cop the pickups. Not for me. The others are all strats — one's a gibson scale beast. Sounds like a strat, looks like a strat, plays like a gibby. Something I enjoy — my briar patch. None of 'em float. One day, I'll get around to doing that, at least for one of 'em.
As it stands, I don't mind the dives, not in the slightest
(Most of the time, these days, I'm playing a tele or a 00).
All strats here. The red one was my second. I've had that one for ages. I ditched the first one which was a fender but had a factory-fitted locking-trem and lace sensors in it — had more moving parts, grub screws and such, than a Sherman tank. And I couldn't cop the pickups. Not for me. The others are all strats — one's a gibson scale beast. Sounds like a strat, looks like a strat, plays like a gibby. Something I enjoy — my briar patch. None of 'em float. One day, I'll get around to doing that, at least for one of 'em.
As it stands, I don't mind the dives, not in the slightest
Okay ... see ... now I feel obligated to re-post my CAR Strat'
:I understand
But this tele's CAR
That's port wine Tele's the same color as my first bike — got stolen, long-scale Malvern Star — worth a small fortune today. Broke my heart, it did, but I got another (that was also stolen) Fire Engine Red, they called it. We had to drill extra holes in the sissy bar so I could reach the pedals. I found freedom. Never looked back Haven't named that tele yet. …Roxanne, that might stick. She's apples
Beats the pants off Cyrano.
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I have set up vibrato-equipped Strats, a bit of finesse to get it right but not too hard.
As to preferring non-vibrato-equipped guitars, that goes back to my yute; I can bend up strings just fine, but have yet to personally find a need/desire to "bend" down a note for what I play. The Custom 24 was the first guitar I owned with a vibrato, previous to that guitar it's been a couple of 1978 Gibson RD Artists, a 2000 Carvin SC-90, and a few Rickenbackers (1967 330, 1998 360V64, '03 660/12, '07 660 75th Anniversary) plus various Gibson Les Pauls I didn't own but have played going back to the early '70s.
This.
The only guitar with any type of a trem in my possession is a '72 SG Special with a factory Bigsby. I don't believe that I've ever used it for a split second.
How did it work? I was considering these before settling on my Edge-equipped Ibanez shredders, thinking the PRS system might hold tune better than a typical Fender-ish unit. I played one without a bar and liked it well enough but wasn’t immediately taken with it.When I had my PRS, only once did I attach the arm "just to see if it works".
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I wish I could say, but I tried so briefly that I didn't really put the vibrato through it paces.
I'm the wrong guy to ask since I only play seated and am used to my EB basses so to me it's all good...
A late friend had a beautiful SG, I rarely see, or hear of them, mainly Les Pauls or 7ender stuff.
A friend brought an unusual SG to a jam years ago. And I still covet it. I don't even know if he still has it. But it was the lightest and most resonant SG that I've ever encountered.
Picture your usual 61RI SG. Now take away that cherry finished mahogany. In its place, put korina like on a '58 Explorer. I've seen white limba SGs with P90s a few times. I've only played two. They were okay. But not amazing. His had humbuckers. I don't know which specific ones. But they sounded like my Bare Knuckle Mules on one of my guitars. So I'd say some kind of low-output PAF types.
A white limba SG with low output PAFs is an absolute blues machine. And the slightly chunkier neck than I'd usually seen on an SG made it fit my hands perfectly. I haven't seen that guitar this decade. But I still covet it.
To me, all guitars are tools. Right tool for the job, and all that. I like my Strat to sound like a Strat, and HH guitars to sound like HH guitars. I've tried the SD Strat sized bucker. It's good, but I sometimes want that bridge single coil chime.You could always throw a single-coil-size humbucker—or two, or three—in a Strat with conventional routs. I have only ever had something like that in the neck position and didn’t like it, but that was because it sounded pretty much like a full-size neck humbucker, which I have never particularly liked either*
*in my hands. Other players make them sound great.
Amen. That single coil sound is the only reason I own a Strat' (or a Tele).
