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It also gives slightly less sustain and a twangier sound, in my opinion - more of an attack spike and a quicker initial drop, followed by a softer and less focused decay.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I’d certainly not base a trying/buying decision on it.
As for sustain and other ways in which the tone is affected, it'd be hard to tell without finding another 335 with 48 year old wood and pickups that had a stop tailpiece. It has a nice, mellow, woody sound - but is that the old pickups? Dunno.
Best thing to do would be to find two similar models with the different tailpieces and see what you thought yourself. For me it's like small differences in neck dimensions; it's nowhere near enough to sway me one way or the other if I really got on with the guitar otherwise.
Also I must admit I like the look of the trapeze.
Anyway, said 335 alike with P90s has turned out to be an Eastman T486B with a Bigsby. It’s currently got a set of 11s on it. All my other guitars are on 10s but......although the Eastman feels a tiny bit “tighter” with the 11s it’s not that much different to my other guitars that I’d want to change it to 10s. I suspect the string length is probably not too dissimilar to having a trapeze tail so the effect we’ve discussed is definitely there.