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lol, poor mans trem blocker, the section 8 method...

Funny, but not funny.


Kinda takes the piss out of the exotic high-speed,low-drag claims around all the miscellaneous gimmicks you can screw onto your guitar.  I approve.
 
Hey all, I'm the crazy cat that came up with this idea. I've been using this for over a month now, at home, in rehearsal and on stage, and it works brilliantly. I have some refinements coming up soon which I'll post about. They will address the minor issues some people have come up with, although I haven't really found them to be issues at all. I guess they'll make it easier to set up more than anything.

I'm happy to hear any comments, or questions. :)
 
I actually made something similar to a tremsetter that looks better, works better, and replaces a standard trem spring with no modifications to the guitar. I made it nfrom a bolt(I had no steel round stock so I turned down a bolt) an aluminum bar, some random springs, and a piece of brass all on my lathe in about 2 hours. it looks like a finnished professional product and I could have made some of it easier with existing stuff at a hardware store. way better than a tremsetter imho, I only think the systems with a spring loaded plunger that get bolted in the spring cavity are better but then you drill holes in the guitar.

well now I look at this and wonder who is smarter. I engineered a contraption for about 4$ in material and spent a few hours machining it, you spent 4$ and 2 minutes for similar results and completely embarrased the tremolo-no while I only prettied up the tremsetter and had to engineer it from scratch. I think its genius! great job.
 
:lol: Thanks, I think a trem-setter has a bit of a different function to a tremolo stopper though. Great work on coming up with your own improved design. I'm too much of a monkey to do something like that. The barrel-bolt does work great for my intended purpose though.
 
well you have stopped and unstopped. tremsetter has a preloaded spring that you load the strings against. the spring doesn't compress till you exceed the preload. it acts like a stop till you push hard enough basically.

my design isn't perfect though there is a reason the pull rod on a tremsetter is so long you need to drill a hole for it. with what I have you don't have the range of adjustability and it wouldn't work for a full floater route that allowed huge travel. I can get a bit more travel but you would lose the adjustability so you coudnt tune the feel for the player. still I like my design for the buid quality and astetics. the tremsetter looks flimsy and I wonder about its repeatability. about the best product, though I forgot the name and source is about $30 and bolts on in the same way as your door lock and has a preloaded spring on a plunger and are made in germany. there are others with that design that go for big bucks as well but many of them arent sold here because gibson claims to have a patent on it. I understand protecting the interests of the inventor is some cases but patent laws are kinda rediculous and if anything hold up progress by making things unavailable for legal reasons.
 
I've had the tremsetter, it's a royal pain to set up, and it takes all the free floating feel away by the time you've set it up to actually be effective.

I still prefer the tremol-no for the ease of changing from fully floating, dive only, or fully locked at will.

If I were only considering setting it for dive only or floating, then the bolt idea would work for me, but that's just my own preference.  There are actually a bunch of very useful tips on Lonepalms site worth checking out.

 
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