Meanwhile, at Warmoth...Your Tremolo is a Mafia Boss

[aarontunes]

Hey everybody: a new blog post today...."Your Tremolo is a Mafia Boss". Check it out here: http://blog.warmoth.com/2016/12/07/strat-tremolo-mafia-boss/

 

[AirCap]

It's an old story, but one that bears retelling from time to time.

 

[fdesalvo]

Don Tremolo.  The only character worse than Tommy Two Toes.

 

[vid1900]

The only thing I’ve found that lets me divebomb to the pickguard, and still stay in tune is the Fender LSR Nut, along with locking tuners.

BUT, the LSR is not ready for prime time straight from the bag.

You need polish the bearing sockets with Green Compound so that they have a mirror finish (takes 30 seconds per socket), and then add 1/10 of a drop of 15 weight oil to each socket.

I had a few guitars with the stock LSR installed and was not overly impressed; a big improvement, but not perfect. A luthier, with many more years experience than I, showed me the polishing trick after I was blown away with a few of the guitars in his shop that I could not make go out of tune.

I finally achieved my divebombing dream, and for $30, they did not cost me an arm and a leg.

Installation I did for my niece, with lots of pictures:

http://www.strat-talk.com/threads/installing-lsr-fender-roller-nut.418503/

 

[Cagey]

Nice job. I'm a fan of the LSR nuts, too. The only drawback I've been able to identify is they only come in 1 11/16" widths. Fortunately for me, that's the size I prefer. But, I'm sure a lot of other people would like to see them made in other sizes. If they were, then the combination of those and locking tuners would finally obsolete locking nuts and string trees entirely.

 

[stratamania]

I prefer 1 5/8" on strats, though I have been playing some 1 11/16 quite a bit lately perhaps I should give one of the LSRs a try one of these days.  The only time I played one remotely like the current LSR was years ago at a Fender launch event for the Strat Plus when they were first released.

If only they did them in gold too...

Good tutorial vid1900 and welcome to this forum...

 

[vid1900]

If only they did them in gold too...

Fender has them in Gold at their Custom Shop .

Because the LSR is Stainless Steel, it could be easily plated with a scratch coat of Nickel, and then plated with Gold if Fender won't sell you one already plated.

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Tremolo Falcone
or
Wammy Moroni

 

[Nando Vallart]

Tremolo Falcone
or
Wammy Moroni

Searched for them and didn't find anything.... what are they?

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

Tremolo Falcone
or
Wammy Moroni

Searched for them and didn't find anything.... what are they?

Batman references.

Don Falcone and Salvatore Moroni are crime bosses in Gotham City.

 

[Cagey]

I forgot about that one. I was thinking you were referencing Johnny Dangerously. Moronie was the rival mob boss who was always butchering the english language, calling people "fargin' iceholes" and such. I think Falcone was one of the henchmen.

 

[stratamania]

Well there is a way to get past Double A's swear word alteration gadget alter the words yourself.

 

[Logrinn]

I quite like "Fargin' iceholes". :icon_biggrin: