Alright, so I was just looking at parts, particularly the spring claw from a Stratocaster, when it came to me. "What if I mounted this up top?" Well, I thought of a whole system for it, possibly.

It started with this basic hardtale bridge.



Remove the saddles from it, make it a solid bar of steel, maybe one inch thick and three inches long. Keep the wraparound feature for the strings.

Now, move to the Tune o Matic.



Use this for the obvious feature, saddle adjustment for making your guitar playable.

Now, here's where the fun begins.



Take this, and mount it so that the claw faces away from the bridge. Take your springs, and elongate them, and possibly bend the mounting ring, so that the actual spring can hook to the steel bar, with holes drilled in the appropriate places for them, of course.

So it pivots smoothly, I was thinking mount the system in some kind of ball bearing system. I'm not sure what the mountings are called, but I'll show a crude sketch I made..

So you can mount your trem arm, the low side of the bar will be slightly elongated and drilled to accommodate.



If you use my idea, and make money, be sure to send me enough so I can live comfortably and take care of my mama. If you make a bunch of one offs, send me one!

(also have a few other complicated ideas, my inventive side takes over when I have too much time to think.)

(also, don't make fun of my three minutes of drawing!)

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Looks good. Sustain would better too.

Go build it.

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In my opinion Leo Fender had essentially perfected the guitar amplifier by 1964.

I need a few extra tools.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

Kinda already been done:

http://stetsbar.com/index.html

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Bill

Yep. The Stetsbar certainly is a hefty hunk of metal. Been around for years: I wonder why we don't see more of them out there? Why...?



Cheers - C

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It looks more like it belongs on a 57 chevy...

As a mechanical contraption, it looks like a pain to keep clean, unoxidized and in perfect working order, but that is my PO as I prefer an uncluttered guitar...

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"C'est parti mon Kiki "

it just doesnt looks as beast as a Bigsby.

its Bigsby or fender design, everything else looks weird.

Had my local tree surgeon (lumberjack to you and me) round yesterday. I think that Stetsbar would look very manly on the front of his Landrover Defender, right alongside the heavy duty winch.

Cheers - C

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...a lumberjack with a Landrover and a man with...manly fantasies of a top-mounted whammy bar installed alongside a heavy duty winch on a Landrover walk into a bar.

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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst." J. Edgar Hoover

Hmmmmm...
Sounds like a Papawookee region....

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"C'est parti mon Kiki "

Well let's suck it and see.

Hmm - you may feel the mounting angle leaves a little to be desired but I think a giant Setsbar top-loaded to the Landrover is the very thing for the well equiped tree surgeon. Stylish and modern. The vibrato method of tree felling is the way of the future, it seems certain:



Cheers - C

PS: Have Stetsbar started paying you a royalty yet, Buxom?

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eh????

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speak slowly I'm a drummer too!!

And I proudly lack a stick or a kazoo up my arse...........