String pressure eventually deforms the bearings out of round where in turn, the bearings begin to rattle in their still round sockets.

As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.

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All of my Strats,except for the 50th Ann. model have the 6 screw systems. When I take the time to set them up properly,I can do Hendrix covers and songs such as "Star Spangled Banner","Machine Gun" and "I Don't Live Today"-all songs with very heavy and aggressive whammy use-without going the slightest bit out of tune.Getting the mechanism set up in such a way is pretty time consuming and requires a lot of tuning and retuning and trial and error but the end result is just great.Where I'm so used to the old 6 screw system,it just feels more comfortable for me.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Not to be difficult, but I prefer hardtail bridges--I even blocked the tremolo on my '62 reissue Strat...the only "working" tremolo I have is on my 1983 G&L Nighthawk, and I don't install the arm when I play it...

Better sustain, better tuning stability...but I do love to hear certain players use them!

Having said that, one of the "next guitars" on "the List" has a Bigsby...

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