I own a 2008 MIA standard HSS strat and I'm one of those guys who rarely uses the Trem bar, but I'm afraid that if I ever pop a string my whole guitar will go untune.

One of my friends was talking about taking a piece of wood and sticking it behind the Bridge to keep it from moving. How do you do this? Does it affect the sound quality?

Thanks, Jimbo

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Google is your friend.

http://www.guitarrepairshop.com/repairtremeloblock.html

Should maybe get a little more sustain.

You can do the same thing I do. I don't use tremolo either, buy one or two more tremolo springs, put them on the tremolo. The bridge should be flat againse the guitar. You shouldn't need a block after that. Now you could break two strings and the guitar will be fine. Oh, the innotation will need to be adjusted after the tremolo is flat...

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Go to the Eldred Forum and open the thread on Clapton Battery location.
You'll find a photo just below showing how the Clapton trem is blocked. For that guitar with the vintage block and five springs, the bridge sits flat to the top with that block of wood in place and its snug. All Strats with trem block of that dimension and 5 vintage springs will accept that size wood block. Others will require blocks of different thicknesses. If not yourself, or a friend, any competent guitar tech (or a caveman for that matter) can do it for it.

As far as sound quality goes.....ask Eric

Been there, done that. Let us know how you make out

Doc

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Pull the bridge forward and place a small piece of wood behind the bridge block. Also, place 5 springs on it for extra hardtail tension.

....and THAT! (as the saying goes) is the REST of the story.

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That looks like a custom guitar. I've never seen paint nor a battery cavity like that. What's the rest of that guitar look like?

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The Masterbuilt Gold Leaf Clapton. It's owned by our collecteur extraordinaire Alainlafrance.

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Wow, that's a beautiful guitar. It must of taken a long time to get all that goldleaf on that guitar to seal it in.

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