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Post subject: String spacing is too wide on Deluxe players strat
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 10:32 am
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I own a Deluxe Players Strat which has a gold Vintage Fender bridge with the 6 wide screw spacing and wide string spacing. I need to find a bridge that will fit the wide screw holes, but will give me a more narrow 2 1/16 string spacing. I have found one bridge that will work, and it comes in gold to match my guitar. It is the Super-Vee Uni-mount Blade Runner. It is expensive though, $200. I would appreciate any suggestions for other bridges that will fit my guitar and give me a more narrow string spacing, either a trem bridge or a hard tail.


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Post subject: Re: String spacing is too wide on Deluxe players strat
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:27 pm
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A good bridge is so important for the tone and it cost more money :(

Super V Blade Runner write bridge is 2.1" strings spacing.
2.1" is 1/32 " more than 2 1/16 if I'm right.


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Post subject: Re: String spacing is too wide on Deluxe players strat
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:55 am
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I've been running a Blade Runner on my Strat Plus for several years - they were pretty new to the market then and I probably had one of the first ones in GB! I fitted it using the 4 screws because the 2 studs on the Plus had 'bent over' in the body, so it was more of a repair than anything else.

You'll find the spacing is what you want, and it gives good tone. The main black mark is the stiffness of it compared to a 3-spring normal Strat trem (either 6- or 2-point). This is because the fulcrum is a piece of spring steel instead of a proper fulcrum, and the spring steel obviously has inbuilt resistance in addition to the coil springs (I use 2 springs with it). If you like a stiffer trem, of course, that's fine, but be aware you cannot get a soft feel whatever you do.

Back on this forum somewhere we had a fairly lengthy thread on the Blade Runner, to which I contributed a review, also mods I did to it. SuperVee actually reacted to my complaints with a couple of mods of their own, so it should be a lot better off the shelf now.

Having said all this, despite the fact that I recently had a bad experience with it, I'd recommend you check out the Callaham Vintage Narrow unit. This retains the look/feel but gives you the spacing you want, is nicely made and has a much better arm fitting. Again it's expensive, but definitely worth it, I'd say. I'm not sure they do it in gold, but they seem to do most options...

My only problem was that it didn't fit my Special, so I had to return it, and - totally unlike SuperVee - Callaham wasn't interested. You at least have the advantage of presumably being in the same country!

Cheers - Peter.


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Post subject: Re: String spacing is too wide on Deluxe players strat
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 11:35 pm
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One thing I repeat very, very often: drop-in replacements seldom exist. :wink:

But since the original question was on the price, check out Wilkinson (licensed models?) - I recall they'd have a gold finish vintage trem with wide screw/narrow string spacing, for a substantially lower price than BladeRunner or Callaham.


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