I honestly never saw the value of blocking a tremolo. If you want an immobile tremolo, simply screw all 6 screws on the bridge plate down so that the plate is perfectly flush with the body, install all 5 tremolo springs and tighten the claw all the way. Unless one uses a set of bass strings, that bridge assembly won't be going anywhere.

I'm also of the camp where Strat wise, there is definitely an extra dimension of tonality with the tremolo assembly (subtle as it may be) not to found in outright hard tails units.

As always, this is merely IMO where YMMV.

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You never told us that you and Clapton went to the same camp. Photos of the old Blackie's trem cavity reveal the trem claw mounted flush to the body, five springs in place and the mass block flush to the forward wall of that rout. There is no wood block. The bridge, as always, flat to to the top. He, as well, shares the same tonality philosophy which is the reason the Signature series guitars have a trem system which he never uses. Why did they optto put a wood block between the mass block and the body rout wall? The trem system components are set up exactly the same as the old guitar.

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I have no clue for as I've said, it serves no purpose if the above has been accomplished. Maybe it was some kind of selling point propaganda which would command/justify an additional $500 or, it is simply another bit of "Infallible Web Dogma" from an unlikely source. YMMV.

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