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Post subject: cp jazzmaster tremolo arm hole (true story)
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:56 pm
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I bought a classic player jazzmaster extremely mint from a dealer and it is the most BEAUTIFUL thing I brought ever since I ate a beautiful whopper in burger king. Anyway just when i start to plug it in my amp, i notice the tremolo armhole was loose. In hindsight, it fell out. I easily notice it because i inserted the tremolo arm and it was completely worthless to use, i couldn't even use the arm to bend it down when it touches the string.
In my mind I seriously wanted to play sonic youths schizophrenia with serious tremolo bending. so I decided to take out the strings (which is pretty weird, well get to that later) and unscrew the tremolo base. Once remove I realized the armhole was off the whole time and the only way was to screw it back on the bottom of the tremolo base (the other side instead of the front). But I thought, "if I screw it back all the way through, it might loose it trends and could fall out again". So i screw it back HALF way and insuring that it is completely unmovable to get it off.
So when its all safe and sound, I mount the whole tremolo back to the jazzmaster and then comes installing the strings. Call me a little whiny kid (even though im 20) but installing strings on this jazzmaster is the most HARDEST thing i've done on a guitar ever since I try to clean up a whopper w/ cheese stain on my vintage stratocaster. Seriously, how can you insert the string in the tuning hole and turn the peg when the strings keeps coming out? I even hold the strings on the tuning hole to prevent it coming out while turning the peg at the same time. Took me a hundred time to do and it was successful. So one down and FIVE more strings to go. This stupid piece of work took me over an hour to put all the strings together, especially the sixth string, don't make me even yell about it.
Anyway changing strings isn't much of a primary concern to me because I been changing strings on strats, les pauls, dean mls, other guitars besides an open-hole tuner for a decade and it should be easy for me (maybe in the future) but my main concern is testing the tremolo and the armhole to properly bend awesomely.
So after hours of hours on working on the guitar (its actually about an hour an a half but it actually felt like more than a year)I insert the tremolo arm in the hole and wind it until it stops at the end of the thread. SUPER success.
Suddenly I accidentally land my arm on the tremolo arm hard and accidentally wind it more than usual. and then a "POP" sound came from the tremolo. I then realized the tremolo armhole falls back in the well once again and I'm sure it made me smile with aggressive pleasure.
So the main point is, after fixing the tremolo armhole, spending 6 bucks on strings to replace it, and hours of hours of fixing the guitar...the conclusion was no change except the strings and making myself turning back to where I was from the beginning.

well i hope you enjoy this story. But really if you can help me solve the problem of fixing the tremolo armhole or maybe finding the easiest, fastest way of installing the strings on a classic player jazzmaster, I will buy you a double whopper w/ extra cheese and have it deliever it right to your door. I also find this forum thread pretty much related on what i'm having: http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32364. From then on, i'll be going to the gun store to steal a 44. magnum and shoot myself in the head.


just kidding about shooting myself, its not the end of the world yet....maybe when my triple whopper gets cold


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Post subject: Re: cp jazzmaster tremolo arm hole (true story)
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:03 pm
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Sounds like you are missing the spring that goes in the tremolo arm hole before you screw in the tremolo arm. For some reason, Fender has been failing to provide them, and expects you to pony up for a dozen of them at $6 retail, when including them would add maybe 1.5 cents wholesale.

For God's sake, Fender, what is the matter with you? Ship the danged spring.


Bowtoledzepiah wrote:
I bought a classic player jazzmaster extremely mint from a dealer and it is the most BEAUTIFUL thing I brought ever since I ate a beautiful whopper in burger king. Anyway just when i start to plug it in my amp, i notice the tremolo armhole was loose. In hindsight, it fell out. I easily notice it because i inserted the tremolo arm and it was completely worthless to use, i couldn't even use the arm to bend it down when it touches the string.
In my mind I seriously wanted to play sonic youths schizophrenia with serious tremolo bending. so I decided to take out the strings (which is pretty weird, well get to that later) and unscrew the tremolo base. Once remove I realized the armhole was off the whole time and the only way was to screw it back on the bottom of the tremolo base (the other side instead of the front). But I thought, "if I screw it back all the way through, it might loose it trends and could fall out again". So i screw it back HALF way and insuring that it is completely unmovable to get it off.
So when its all safe and sound, I mount the whole tremolo back to the jazzmaster and then comes installing the strings. Call me a little whiny kid (even though im 20) but installing strings on this jazzmaster is the most HARDEST thing i've done on a guitar ever since I try to clean up a whopper w/ cheese stain on my vintage stratocaster. Seriously, how can you insert the string in the tuning hole and turn the peg when the strings keeps coming out? I even hold the strings on the tuning hole to prevent it coming out while turning the peg at the same time. Took me a hundred time to do and it was successful. So one down and FIVE more strings to go. This stupid piece of work took me over an hour to put all the strings together, especially the sixth string, don't make me even yell about it.
Anyway changing strings isn't much of a primary concern to me because I been changing strings on strats, les pauls, dean mls, other guitars besides an open-hole tuner for a decade and it should be easy for me (maybe in the future) but my main concern is testing the tremolo and the armhole to properly bend awesomely.
So after hours of hours on working on the guitar (its actually about an hour an a half but it actually felt like more than a year)I insert the tremolo arm in the hole and wind it until it stops at the end of the thread. SUPER success.
Suddenly I accidentally land my arm on the tremolo arm hard and accidentally wind it more than usual. and then a "POP" sound came from the tremolo. I then realized the tremolo armhole falls back in the well once again and I'm sure it made me smile with aggressive pleasure.
So the main point is, after fixing the tremolo armhole, spending 6 bucks on strings to replace it, and hours of hours of fixing the guitar...the conclusion was no change except the strings and making myself turning back to where I was from the beginning.

well i hope you enjoy this story. But really if you can help me solve the problem of fixing the tremolo armhole or maybe finding the easiest, fastest way of installing the strings on a classic player jazzmaster, I will buy you a double whopper w/ extra cheese and have it deliever it right to your door. I also find this forum thread pretty much related on what i'm having: http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32364. From then on, i'll be going to the gun store to steal a 44. magnum and shoot myself in the head.


just kidding about shooting myself, its not the end of the world yet....maybe when my triple whopper gets cold


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Post subject: Re: cp jazzmaster tremolo arm hole (true story)
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:30 pm
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I had the same problem. After doing a bit of research, I found that one of these was missing from the trem receptacle like the 2nd poster said: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/fender-tremolo-arm-tension-springs-12/420519000000000

So, after you get the collet/receptacle tightened back down to the tailpiece, just drop one of these springs in to the hole and screw the trem arm back in until it feels right. It will stay wherever where you want it.


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