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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:45 pm
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Urhhh. How do you block off the tremolo bridge thing on a standard Mexican Strat? I JUST bought one and love it to death but the tremolo bridge is knocking it out of tune something awful (I removed the bar, but I want to prevent this from happening completely).


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The easiest way to disable the trem is to put in 5 springs and tighten down the screws on the claw.

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Personally I'd just add two more springs to make 5. That makes for a damn stable bridge. If you really want to block it just google the question. There's plenty of info out there.

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A local guitar repair-man had an old old guitar that someone had broken, and he cut off a small block of maple from that body, and put it in between the tremolo-block and the body of my guitar, while tightening the springs on the back of the guitar. It then needed a good setup, as my floating tremolo was no longer floating, and it lowered the action a tad bit.


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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:18 pm
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CAFeathers wrote:
The easiest way to disable the trem is to put in 5 springs and tighten down the screws on the claw.


I know nothing about disabling the tremolo...where do I put the 5 springs and whats the claw? lol...(Seriously, this is only really the 1st guitar I've had that I've had a floating tremolo.)


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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 9:21 pm
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Rocker_Gamma wrote:
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The easiest way to disable the trem is to put in 5 springs and tighten down the screws on the claw.


I know nothing about disabling the tremolo...where do I put the 5 springs and whats the claw? lol...(Seriously, this is only really the 1st guitar I've had that I've had a floating tremolo.)


Take off the back cover. There you will find the springs, They go from the trem block to the claw. The claw has 2 screws that attach it to the guitar.

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If you take the back plate off you'll see the tremolo springs. You'll also see the space between the block and the body. You can add springs to make the block more stable or you can shove a hunk of wood between the block and the body to make it like a hardtail. There's instructions on all of this all over the net. It's amazing the amount of info out there for Fender guitars. If you want to build one from scratch, there's directions for it.

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Ok, I see what ya'll mean now...can I find these particular springs at like Home Depot. by chance?


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No. A Fender Dealer. They are very inexpensive.

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musicians friend sells em for like $5 a set.

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CAFeathers wrote:
No. A Fender Dealer. They are very inexpensive.


Good, I got one of those in town here. Just gotta find time to make my way down there. :?


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ThatGuitarGuyAL wrote:
A local guitar repair-man had an old old guitar that someone had broken, and he cut off a small block of maple from that body, and put it in between the tremolo-block and the body of my guitar, while tightening the springs on the back of the guitar. It then needed a good setup, as my floating tremolo was no longer floating, and it lowered the action a tad bit.


I prefer using a small piece of wood as well to block a tremolo, becuase I find it adds to sustain, and the reason why 90% of my guitars don't have trems is because I don't use them, and I find that the guitars don't seem to sustain or resonate as well as non-trem guitars.

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I prefer using a small piece of wood as well to block a tremolo, becuase I find it adds to sustain, and the reason why 90% of my guitars don't have trems is because I don't use them, and I find that the guitars don't seem to sustain or resonate as well as non-trem guitars.


I completely agree. I fiound myself not using my tremelo as much as I expected.


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I prefer using a small piece of wood as well to block a tremolo, becuase I find it adds to sustain, and the reason why 90% of my guitars don't have trems is because I don't use them, and I find that the guitars don't seem to sustain or resonate as well as non-trem guitars.


I completely agree. I fiound myself not using my tremelo as much as I expected.


Both things, I did myself. I find the tremolo bar, if its not a Floyd Rose, is not worth using at all whatsoever. Plus I like never use the tremolo bar any way. I did also stick a small block of wood in to block the tremolo, and I must agree, the sustain did pick up a bit more. Now its even better sounding than before I stuck that chunk of wood in there lol.


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The strings that come on the MIM Standard Strat are 10's, I think. I wanted to use 11's, but my tremlo system didn't like it. But, I added two more springs and life is good. No more tuning issues at all, and if I want to use the tremelo bar, I still can with no worries.

I'm all about 5 springs.


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