Re: another whammy/tremolo issue & headstocks

Well Whitespirit. Floyd Rose has tried modifying the vibrato bridge with
locking nuts(butchery )fine tuners,different saddles,I dont even know what
all.What they've succeeded in doing is to create an over engineered
,expensive ,impressive looking ,heavy piece of crap that still doesnt
work.For what? Wooo woo woo. Having that capability doesnt make a guitar
versatile.


"Squier" <notes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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ok - i really had not thought too much about this
since I am not a big tremolo/vibrato user.
But it would seem that another key issue is actually
the design of the headstock. (But since i have no practical
experience with 3 on a side Gibson type headstocks that would
also have a tremolo or some bigsby thing I can only make assumptions
and not experienced statements)

anyways - wouldn't the headstock design also play a critical
role in how good a tremolo would work.
For instance - on 6 a side Fender Strat type headstock the
strings come through the nut on a straight path to the tuners.
This would seem to be a sleeker design for strings to move through.
It's a straight (and slippery) path through the nut.

But on a Gibson headstock or any 3 on a side type the
strings come out through the nut and then immediately
have to make a right or left angle to get to the tuners.
This seems it would promote more string bind or hang on the nut as it
is not a nice straight path to the tuners if a whammy bar was used.

In other words - not too many people speak about whammy bars
in relation to the headstock/nut -- it seems most people speak
about the bridge design or the design of the whammy itself (floyd, etc)
but there is not too much talk at the other end of the guitar where
the strings need to move effortlessly at the nut. I would think
the Fender 6 on a side would be of better design for this.

ok - just some musings - perhaps i am way off here


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