Hi all
I have just taken delivery of a Mosky Spring reverb unit which is excellent but I now have a desire to add a bit of trem to the things I am playing.
I have a LP standard and have seen that there's some options to add a trem without drilling etc (Andertons do one by Duensberg for instance)... sounds great, but I wondered what others thought?
I can't imagine that it's as simple as it is made to sound.
I'm not in a position to get a second guitar, and I don't want to get one fitted in a way that requires drilling, so it's either this kind of option or forget about it
Martin
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The Duensberg Les Paul Trem 2 looks good, but I fear there's got to be a catch
I could go the Jad Fair route and just bend the neck.
I had a Bigsby B7 drilled into my Les Paul by a professional because I'm a pussy and won't drill anything worth more than a grand
But it just looks a bit odd, on a Gibson... if that matters to you! I think it actually looks better than a Bigsby on something like a Yamaha SA though - horses for courses etc.
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@ICBM is there a roller type bridge that you would recommend that is not expensive? I'm also not quite sure what you mean that it won't float forward of the rest position.
FYI I use 10s and the guitar has in the past been properly set up and fettled (following a headstock break) so hopefully the nut is OK. I am also not what you would call a subtle player
I'd love a Bigsby but don't have deep pockets and I am hoping that if I did get a trem and it proved not to be to my liking I coudl revert to the stock specs and sell it on (or put it in a drawer for several years!)
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Unless you use very heavy strings which have enough tension to compress the spring further, the string anchor rests against the backstop, so you can’t pull up on the arm and there’s a noticeable amount of force needed to bend down from the rest position. I haven’t tried setting one up with anything heavier than 10s so far - they’ve all been for customers - so I don’t know what gauge you would need to make it float, but at least 11s.
It does also mean that it won’t go out of tune if you break a string, though.
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I expect I'd use it for down bends rather than up so maybe 10s would possibly suit. And if it didn't work out I won't have sunk too much cash into it.
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Spotify, Apple et al
"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
Mine's black... I still fancy one
From that position of ignorance, I've always been under the impression that they haven't changed any of their designs since some time in the 1950s. But that's probably completely wrong, and if the designs do evolve then yes, they should certainly have made at least one LP-specific model by now.