marcello252
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2 springs only? Are you using 008?
What guitar are you playing today?
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Solarflares
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Honestly mate.
Put 3 regular springs back on it, in-line.
Solarflares
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Every day is a new day.
I never tire of this view.
I never tire of this view.
Solarflares
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Surely you mean - No thanks?
weepingminotaur
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Haven't been able to play the past two days, grrr. Gonna fix that tonight.
Chistopher
malapterurus electricus tonewood instigator
Is that the gubbyment model?
GuitarStv
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Angling the springs out like that changes the feel of a trem quite a bit. I'm guessing mincer likes a light touch on the bar. Putting three springs will kill that.
Solarflares
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You’re very kind. I’m sure he/she has their reasons. Not that they would make the slightest difference to me.
Always worth trying new things once, but I do like customisations to be quantifiable in their efficacy.
Don’t want to engage in an argument over spring-linearity, when I don’t have his/them/their guitar here to try, and likewise.
We are all here to help each other. He doesn’t want to take my advice. That’s ok. It was free and he/she/it didn’t ask for it.
GuitarStv
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FWIW, I've experimented quite a bit with different trem spring configurations and run different ones depending on what I want from the guitar. like four heavy springs set perfectly straight with .11s on my Jazzmaster, and three springs (one straight, two angled) on my Charvel where I prefer a lighter touch. I figure as long as you can wiggle it in a way that makes you happy you're doing it right.
Rex_Rocker
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Nah. It's a new-ish Modern Lite. I think they came up with the model like 1 or 2 years ago? It's a Les Paul with a thin body ala SG, no Maple cap, and a satin finish without grain fill.
Solarflares
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I tried the reverse-angled approach back in ‘78, and carried on until 1985. Wide claw, narrow trem.FWIW, I've experimented quite a bit with different trem spring configurations and run different ones depending on what I want from the guitar. like four heavy springs set perfectly straight with .11s on my Jazzmaster, and three springs (one straight, two angled) on my Charvel where I prefer a lighter touch. I figure as long as you can wiggle it in a way that makes you happy you're doing it right.
But when I had a Floyd Rose fitted to my Strat, I managed to yank and twist the trem clean off the guitar.
That was when I fitted Gotoh posts, recessed the Floyd fully, shaved the block, and reverted to straight running springs.
Quick lesson in never pulling up on a Floyd’s bar, unless you have tons of spare trems laying around.
Wiggling was never an option. This was rock, not Cliff Richard and the Shadows!
But after Allan Holdsworth became known - everyone was wiggling. On everything.
I learned in ‘85 to wind the bar round and press down to raise strings. My G went up a perfect 5th!
Then the Blue Powder flexi-disc was given away in the guitar-player mag, and I discovered I was not alone. The trick then was to do it so quickly that people were sonically stunned, but anything remotely or visibly like Steve Vai was considered taboo for me, and I quickly grew away from the technique, since one inopportune photograph could have cemented my career as Steve’s understudy wannabe - which I wasn’t.
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marcello252
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Don't want to get in a rabbit hole, but I don't think rules written on stone exist about springs number or angle of the springs unless there is the right amount of even pulling on the strings. For example, I can't exacly check it, but maybe the distance from trem block to claws is different than mine and the traction is stronger on Mincer's guitar so two strings are enough, I use four parallel springs on mine instead for example but I use heavier strings and my trem is set to just touch the body on standard tuning (I can only pitch down but if I break a string is still in tune), it's not floating
