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To change the subject just a little bit. Has anyone used the TremKing fixed bridge vibrato system?

http://tremking.com/

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I dont like the idea of it. Because the saddles dont move then presumably the string has to pass over the saddle which could lead to excessive breaks in years to come as the saddles wear. The main reason why kahler were never popular enough, some of their trems had a similar setup.
I can see it being ok for sustain though, theres quite a chunk of solid metal being screwed to the body. Certainly as much as a tele bridge anyway. Who's ever had a problem with tele sustain?

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Dugger wrote:
To change the subject just a little bit. Has anyone used the TremKing fixed bridge vibrato system?

http://tremking.com/

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I dont like the idea of it. Because the saddles dont move then presumably the string has to pass over the saddle which could lead to excessive breaks in years to come as the saddles wear. The main reason why kahler were never popular enough, some of their trems had a similar setup.
I can see it being ok for sustain though, theres quite a chunk of solid metal being screwed to the body. Certainly as much as a tele bridge anyway. Who's ever had a problem with tele sustain?


Tele's and Hardtail Strats were different since the strings pass through the body of the guitar before going to the saddles, giving the wood a bit more of the string vibration directly as opposed to the vibration transfer from the inertia block to the bridge plate, then to the pivot screws before getting to the body.
I do believe there is an entirely different sound to the hardtail Strats than there is with the Tremolo Strats. Just my opinion though.

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Harley i hear you mate and completely agree. Theres alot more attack on hardtail guitars. The reason i dont equate stringing through with sustain is that the broadcaster, les paul and sg dont suffer sustain problems. Ok with the gibbo's i put it down to wood choices, not construction. Play a bad set neck guitar and its deader than last months milk, also the lp's extra sustain owes loads to the maple cap. With the broadcaster though its certainly all down to its topload bridge's mass. I think the trem mentioned would make use of this. Theres certainly a lot of metal involved in it.

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I looked at it too, and the reviews tell you that it is'nt made for extreme whammy techniques. It's interesting, but not something I would use in any of my guitars that I presently own.
I'm also not sure if I'm reading this correctly, but it looks like the strings do pass through an inertia block of some kind before going over the bridge saddles, and it's this block itself which seems to pivot under the bridge plate. I agree that id the inertia block were removed from the stratocaster bridge that it would not be favorable to the sustain of the tremolo system.

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I thought it was designed for guitars like a Les Paul, that has no tremolo block or anything.


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That's what I thought at first, until I clicked on the review to the left of the ad, I believe it was Guitar World review, and they described the mechanics of it. From their description, it sounds like the strings are loaded from the rear of the guitar and fed out to the saddles. This looks like it is a 'drop-in' replacement for an existing tremolo cavity.

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