Re: Whammy Bar Question

I'm not saying it aint so Patrick but those must be some shitty fu$%ing
bearings. The slight amount of pressure exerted in a guitar tremolo
shouldnt be able to wear a hardedened bearing(as most are) out in 5
lifetimes.

"Patrick Keenan" <test@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"The Wuffler" <wuffler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Greetings
> Not being too familiar with all the current inovations, I was
wondering if
> there were any vibrato systems (apart from Bigsby) that use springs
under
> compression - possibly a reverse of the Fender system with the
springs in
> the back but towards the bottom end of the guitar?
>
> Thanks
> Pete

That's not likely to be a current innovation. IIRC, Hagstrom and
others
used a similar compression design. The Wonderbar from Washburn, I
think
used a torque bar rather than a spring.

For all of them, though, the key issue is the pivot. When Fender
(CBS)
shifted to softer metal bridges, the pivots tended to flatten quickly,
increasing tuning problems. Kahler tried using roller bearings, but
roller
bearings are designed to roll continually and so evenly distribute the
wear.
That doesn't happen on a guitar, so flat spots develop on the bearings,
just
as they do on knife-edge pivots.

HTH
-pk


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