I been reading this forum for sometime now researching if a vintage tremelo bridge and vintage tuners would fit on an Am Stnd.

I just did the change last night and I wanted to share the following for anyone else who may want to do this.

I used the Callaham Retrofit Kit for Am Stnd to install the (6 screw) vintage bridge. Although Callaham strongly forewarns that "a change in the fret bevel" is needed, it seems fine to me so far. The kit installed easily and perfectly. Drilling the 4 inner screw holes was easy, but I was a little nervous at first.

The difference in the tremolo block is that the vintage has no taper, so I've gained some mass here.

The vintage (Gotoh Kluson style) tuners were a bit more difficult because the hole size on an Am Stnd is 3/8" - 13/32". The vintage requires a 11/32" hole. Don't laugh, but I wrapped some masking tape around the bushings (trimmed it) to fit. It's working so far. I saw on a website that a 13/32" conversion bushing is available - I maybe order that.

Overall, the conversion went well. I just need to patch the string tree holes from the Am Stnd trees (I have a '91 that came with 2 string trees) and do a set up.

Thanks to all for your previous advice and help.

Congrats. You got balls mate. Pics please ?

Try lining your tuner bushing holes with strips of brass or copper shim stock -- say, of .008" thickness. It will hold those bushings more permanently.

Arjay

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Hello,I am thinking of installing kluson tuners on my amr std neck,i know it requires bushing adapters,but does it require holes to be drilled in the headstock?

Probably.

The Kluson set installs with seven screws arranged thus......



Be sure to use a depth gauge when drilling any holes in a headstock.

HTH

Arjay

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Here is a link to some pics. I hope this works. You might have to copy and paste into a browser.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir? ... feat=email

Also to reply to the question on having to drill holes to install the tuners - yes, I had to drill 7 small holes to mount the tuners. Aligning the tuners was the hardest part. I am going to try to re-mount using the posted suggestion as long as I can find that shim stock. I never heard of that.

You can find shim stock at most Lowe's, Home Depot, and Ace Hardware stores.

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

If I were going to do a converstion to a ventage Strat I would take a black HWY1 and vintage '50s neck, Some custom shop '54 pickups and buff the body real nice.

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1975 Sunburst Stratocaster rosewood finger board
1979 Stratocaster with roseowood finder board
2001 Candy Green Clapton Stratocaster
2007 Andy Summers Inspired Telecaster
2007 '51 P-Bass
2012 Taylor 110
2015 Mystic Ice Blue Deluxe Stratocaster Plus

The Floyd Rose Special models were equipped with vintage Kluson tuners.