Hi 357mag: you may have missed this post from maxoom. He pointed out a known problem with Callaham bridge blocks - that Mexican trem plates don't always have their arm hole in the same place, so the block may not fit:



Cheers - C

Buy the entire bridge/block assembly. It's a great upgrade and if you do some research you will discover that the Callaham saddles are better than what Fender gives you too.

Whatever I get, I am planning on getting a whole new assembly. Can you strip out a pop in whammy bar? I like the idea of not having to screw it in, and I'd like that idea even better if it meant I didn't have to worry about stripping out another whammy bar. Does the Wilkinson Tremolo have a pop in bar or is that a Callaham thing?

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Do you mean "can one wear out the pop in mechanism" so that the bar doesn't stay in anymore? I suppose that's possible, but I've never heard anyone talk about that happening.

There's a little bent piece of metal at the bottom of the hole. I don't know if it can be fixed should it stop "popping" properly. I'll have to examine the pop-in block that my American Series Strat somehow left the factory with ...

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Texas,
the wilkinson trem has a pop in arm that can be tightened by a grub screw exactly the same way the american deluxe trem is.

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