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Post subject: Trem Block Rescues Strat
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 3:58 pm
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A subject I thought was dead, got a little new life today.

Hope this url works .. otherwise it's the new Reverb blog today .. thanks for the heads-upBMW-KTM

Reverb has an excellent piece [url=https://reverb.com/news/george-fullerton-leo-fenders-longtime-partner-on-their-legacy-of-guitar-building-bacons-archive[/url]

Excerpt re: Importance of the Tremolo Block to the Stratocaster guitar.


George: "So it was finally decided it (Strat prototype) would be built, and tooling was purchased and parts made, and when the first one came off the line I grabbed it, and it was terrible—sounded terrible, sounded tinny, wouldn’t sustain sound. So I rushed down to the lab there, and I said Leo—it was all set up for production—I said we’ve got to stop this.
Well, that whole thing was thrown out, all the parts, all the tooling, many, many thousands of dollars. So now that thing had to be redesigned not only to sustain notes but to give a solid sound. So course, when it was done, it came out with that block in it, basically how it still is today.

But that’s why the Stratocaster didn’t come out as soon as it should have, even though it was already advertised at the sales office. There was a time lapse between the time it was advertised at the sales office until it actually came out [in 1954], because they were retooling."

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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 4:07 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:46 pm
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https://reverb.com/news/george-fullerto ... ns-archive

Easy way to post a link...........On the page you want to link to , left click the header
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It will turn blue .....then right click and select copy.........open up a new post and when ready for the link, right click and select paste.that's it

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Post subject: Re: Trem Block Rescues Strat
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 6:44 am
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Thanks Ted J & BMW-KTM

I had expected howls of anguish re: another Trem Block post. : )

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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:27 pm
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Here’s a little video of Leo discussing the making, and design of the Stratocaster’s tremolo system.



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Post subject: Re: Trem Block Rescues Strat
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:28 pm
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Thanks Blues ..

That story sounds a lot like George Fullerton's version .. without George : )

Curiosity aroused, now I want to know more about the initial "faulty" design ..

Took me a long time to learn that a Good Set-Up is the best Parts money can buy.

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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:53 am
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I guess this guitar/page is already familiar to you, but maybe not to all who read this topic:
https://sites.google.com/site/1953stratocaster/

danagos wrote:
Good Set-Up is the best Parts money can buy.

Tru dat. Should be the first sentence in all Instrument Owner's Manuals.


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Post subject: Re: Trem Block Rescues Strat
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:38 am
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Thanks jmattis, I had forgotten it, but it was in my archives.

That '53 proto bridge is very familiar, where have I seen one like that .. hehe

So, the first Strat tremolo idea was similar to the Jazzmaster. Clears that up.

I am Soooo glad that change was made! : )

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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 1:03 pm
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Me too danagos, me too. :)


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