Trem for my les paul

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Bigsbys look great on Les Pauls. The Les Trem looks pretty cool too, i'd just like to see a picture of a guitar with it equipped for a better idea y'know.

EDIT: found one.
Something I might consider for my SG...after changing the pickup to a chrome P90, this would add a totally 'vintage' vibe to an otherwise modern guitar.
 
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some les pauls look fine with kahlers and floyds, like the norlin era customs and neil schon signature..
on yours though, i think bigby's would be better, including aesthetically..
 
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Carve the hell out of it!! Add a Floyd!!Whle you're at it, route it out for a tee control plate and P-90s!!!! Why not desecrate it even more and put a bulls-eye finish on it!:D

Actually, if I were you, I would've bought a Strat HH in the first place.
 
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Pfft...I have a Gibson Les Paul Studio and one of the first things I thought about doing to it is slapping a bigsby on there! I'm just waiting til I have the funds to order one
 
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Fender_Punk said:
Carve the hell out of it!! Add a Floyd!!Whle you're at it, route it out for a tee control plate and P-90s!!!! Why not desecrate it even more and put a bulls-eye finish on it!:D

Actually, if I were you, I would've bought a Strat HH in the first place.
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Yeah, but strats feel and resonate like strats. I have a MIM that has that angle covered.

Right now the bigsby is tempting, even if it requires 2 holes. I decided I don't want anything locking, so that leaves the Kahler out. Les trem looks interesting, but I need to find more reviews on it. And my failsafe solutin if I cant decide will be the stetsbar.
 
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Fender_Punk said:
Carve the hell out of it!! Add a Floyd!!Whle you're at it, route it out for a tee control plate and P-90s!!!! Why not desecrate it even more and put a bulls-eye finish on it!:D

Actually, if I were you, I would've bought a Strat HH in the first place.
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nah you would have bought TEN squiers...:bowdown: jk!

if you absolutely have to go trem..then bigsby...
but it's too nice to make holes in it!
 
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The words Les Paul and trem in the same sentence make me queasy. :smack:

Except perhaps in a sentence like "I play Les Pauls and I don't need no goshdarn trem".

As an old fart, my feeling is that the only trem that should be on a Les Paul is a Bigsby. Whatever you do don't take any wood out of the guitar!
 
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this is a stupid suggestion that has never worked for me but it might just be your bag. A good pitch shifting pedal of some kind... there are some with a tremolo arm simulation in them. You'll probably have to search high and low and/or dish out alot of cash to find a decent/accurate one but it's only a suggestion. The Digitech Whammy (the WH-4) has a pretty good Dive-Bomb mode.
 
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Beer$ said:
this is a stupid suggestion that has never worked for me but it might just be your bag. A good pitch shifting pedal of some kind... there are some with a tremolo arm simulation in them. You'll probably have to search high and low and/or dish out alot of cash to find a decent/accurate one but it's only a suggestion. The Digitech Whammy (the WH-4) has a pretty good Dive-Bomb mode.
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+1. Whammy, or a Boss Phase Shifter with a Exp. pedal hooked up t it would do the trick nicely!!

Though it'd be cool to see a Les Paul desecrated!! :D
 
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I checked the bigsby website, and there are holes on the b-7 for top screws. Maybe he was refering to another model?
 
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Man I think we might have a winner. I dont mind small holes on the side, and if I dont drill the top, I think I can totally dig a bigsby.
 
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