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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 10:00 am
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thanks everyone for answering my question. this is my FIRST fender stratocaster (also bought it with my first college internship paychecks too!!!)!!!

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Many recommend that you leave the spring out. If you want to use it, put a small kink in it or slap on some Vasoline petroleum jelly so it won't fall out.


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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 2:50 pm
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I feel like a complete maroon...I've been playing for more years than I care to admit and never realized there was a spring in there until I bought my New American Standard :oops:

I love the guitar, though it is kind of a dorky design (imo) to have to keep a spot of tape on your bridge if you don't want to lose the spring.

Oh well - Strats still rock!

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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:05 pm
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love2play wrote:
I feel like a complete maroon...I've been playing for more years than I care to admit and never realized there was a spring in there until I bought my New American Standard :oops:

I love the guitar, though it is kind of a dorky design (imo) to have to keep a spot of tape on your bridge if you don't want to lose the spring.

Oh well - Strats still rock!


Here's something even dorkier that I'll bet you may have never realized... the volume and tone controls on a strat are numbered 1 through 10, yet I've never seen a strat with an index mark to facilitate the use of the numbers?!?! WT


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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 7:19 am
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Yeah - I always thought the numbers were for decoration :lol:

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Hi folks! Thank you so much for the information provided in this thread; I just bought my first Fender Strat (MIM) this week. The guy in the shop took it out of the bag and played it with no Tremolo or sticker in place, then later attached the tremolo. I was worried about the spring and checked, there was not one there. When I asked him about it he did not know there was meant to be a spring in there - he proceeded to show me where the main springs are at the back of the guitar. I insisted that I had read about the small spring on this website and in the Fender PDF, but he thought I was wrong!! Thanks for confirming that I was right!! Am trying to play Hank sounds and get fed up when the arm falls away when I let go - now I know why. Will try the bin-liner mod.... Cheers guys :D

My first Fender and my first post :P


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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 6:13 pm
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love2play wrote:
I feel like a complete maroon ... I've been playing for more years than I care to admit and never realized there was a spring in there until I bought my New American Standard


Don't be hard on yourself. The springs in the trem hole are a relatively new development. I can't say for sure when they started using them, but strats probably went more years without them than with them.

The holes in the '70s trem blocks went all the way through, so springs wouldn't be such a good thing.

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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:57 pm
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Am I crazy, or does this whole spring thing seem kinda...cheap? This is my first Strat (American Standard) and this trem thing has me pretty disenchanted with what I thought was suppose to be a religious experience (my first genuine American Fender..guitar that is, my bass is a Jazz American Deluxe). I also own a Yamaha Pacifica (equipped with a Wilkinson trem and locking tuning machines) which I have as the "beater", but I'll tell ya' there is no spring sliding out of there or a sticker to keep it in place!

Maybe my expectations are too high, I don't know. How long has this spring deal been around? Did Strat's 10 years ago have the same thing going on?


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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:47 pm
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Trem arm spring.


"Sixty-five billion dollars" for a new guitar and this newbie has to be stymied by a little spring!!.

You want to leave the arm off and it has to become a major issue. Wasn't there an earlier design based on friction grip retention instead of a threaded block? Did that prove unsatisfactory in the long run?

Forgive me for my cynicism and sarcasm but considering some of the things we've discussed recently, I sometimes wonder about those guys out on the coast.



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