What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

[Chistopher]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

Exactly. That’s why maple sounds brighter than basswood.


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Since tone wood is a product of the body absorbing every frequency at a different rate, not some inherent magic that a particular piece of wood adds (emphasis on "adds", wood cannot add anything to a guitar's tone), that means that the longer you sustain a note, the bigger an effect the wood will have. If you are shredding you may not notice too much of a difference between two pieces of wood, even if they are on opposite ends of the spectrum. But if you're playing a particular style of blues where you can take two or three swigs of beer between notes, the difference will be more obvious.

 

[Xeromus]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

I wedge a potato behind the bridge for TONE. Sometimes I'll mash one into the springs to give it a little extra awesome.

POTATONE. :headbang:

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

Did you ever see the 70s Ibanez guitars with the brass inertia block under the TOM bridge? They stole that idea from Rick Turner/Alembic.

But those guitars don’t have a fulcrum tremolo and springs.


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No I haven't ever seen those.

So you're saying that this block goes under the tuneomatic bridge?!!! And how, per se, does that happen? There's not enough room between the bottom of the tom and the face of the guitar to add anything of much substance. Show me a pic.

 

[Francois]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

But there is also the symphatic effect : Something that resonates to a specific frequencies when one vibrates on this frequencies.
This works on a guitar bridge when a non muted string is tuned to the same note that one note you play.

If you ever played Sitar, Sarod, Sarangi, Santoor, it is obvious...

Of course the metallic bridge will keeps lots of energy into the string.
But I think the tone wood re-inject in some way some vibration into the string...

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

No I haven't ever seen those.

So you're saying that this block goes under the tuneomatic bridge?!!! And how, per se, does that happen? There's not enough room between the bottom of the tom and the face of the guitar to add anything of much substance. Show me a pic.

The inertia block is recessed into the body. The bridge sits on top of it.

This is from a 70’s Ibanez Artist guitar.

This is an Alembic bridge. You can see the brass block under it.

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[GuitarDoc]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

Did you ever see the 70s Ibanez guitars with the brass inertia block under the TOM bridge? They stole that idea from Rick Turner/Alembic.

But those guitars don’t have a fulcrum tremolo and springs.


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No I haven't ever seen those.

So you're saying that this block goes under the tuneomatic bridge?!!! And how, per se, does that happen? There's not enough room between the bottom of the tom and the face of the guitar to add anything of much substance. Show me a pic.

You're using an example of a particular guitar, but that doesn't relate to this specific device. My question was..."But how does THAT work on a "tuneomatic" bridge?" (refering to the device originally referred to by the OP.)

Why are you being so irrelevant to the subject?

The info on the website says it's for..."6-saddle tremolo and hardtail bridges". Doesn't say anything about tom bridges. In fact, the picture of it and the description of it would absolutely EXCLUDE tom bridges.

And yet the OP (Christopher) originally said..."This appears to be an easy to install drop-in sustain block for your tuneomatic equipped". This is what I'm referring to.

And I am still asking the OP to give me an answer. I'd like to know.

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

Why are you being so irrelevant to the subject?

Are you referring to me? Can’t tell from the lack of quotations.

I mentioned that as part of my post on adding mass. And I said you can buy a piece of 1/8” thick brass and attach it to your trem block. That will do the same thing as buying a heavier block for a few dollars. Go back and read all the posts before getting so outraged. lol

You can also stick a weight on your headstock. That does a similar thing. Fender sells those. I think they call them “fat heads” or something like that.


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[GuitarDoc]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

Oh My Gosh!! Are you freaking kidding me?!!!

You still have a real problem with reading posts.

"Lack of quotations"?!! Are you real?

Did you read my entire post?
Did you happen to notice the post that I quoted/included in my post?
Did you notice that it was your post that I included?
Did you notice that YOU mentioned a block under a tom bridge in that post?
Did you notice that neither you nor I mentioned anything about about a brass block attached to an existing trem block in either of those two posts?
Did you notice that I wasn't asking anything about a weight on the headstock nor did you mention it in either of those posts?
Did you notice that I was specifically asking about a block that the OP said was for a tom? He included a link to a website in his original post...
Did you notice THAT?
Did you notice that in my last post I quoted the OP..."And yet the OP (Christopher) originally said...'This appears to be an easy to install drop-in sustain block for your tuneomatic equipped'."?
In your wildest imagination could you ever possibly think that this is what I'm talking about? Not a Yamaha guitar. Not a brass block that fits into a rout under a bridge. Not a trem block. Not a mass on the headstock. This is what I mean by you being irrelevant.

So, let's start over, let me make this as clear as possible...
The OP, in his initial post, included a link to a product that attaches to a trem.
The OP, in his initial post, also said..."This appears to be an easy to install drop-in sustain block for your tuneomatic equipped".
In reference to THAT product, I ask..."how does that product work/attach on a TOM"?

Now, do you, DavidRavenMoon (I include your name so you won't be confused as to who this comment is directed), have a RELEVENT answer to this specific question and ONLY to this question? If not, then please don't respond.

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

TWO brass blocks for your Strat!

This appears to be an easy to install drop-in sustain block for your tuneomatic equipped. Does anyone else think this idea is ridiculous, especially for $50 a pop?

OK, let me try this again:

Christopher, how does this work/attach on a TOM?

(Seems like a simple enough question to me)

 

[beaubrummels]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

But how does that work on a "tuneomatic" bridge?

The simple answer, which you knew before asking, is it doesn’t.

 

[RockinProf]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

 

[Chistopher]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

OK, let me try this again:

Christopher, how does this work/attach on a TOM?

(Seems like a simple enough question to me)

Simple, you just accidentally type the wrong word. I meant "synchronized tremolo".

 

[GuitarDoc]

Re: What's better than one brass block for your Strat?

Problem solved.