The guitar I use now has equally cheap electronics (though cheap by 60s standards), and the slab (I think it's mahogany, I'm not sure) and neck are much thinner and flimsier than on the Strat. By all accounts it is very much the superior machine. I plan on one day installing a Kahler on a guitar. I thought Vai and Satriani used the Ibanez trems? I wouldn't know. I've currently got 12s on this 60s era off-brand Japanese-made surf guitar someone gave me. If I get the nicer Strat I'd do the same and make sure to beef up the springs first thing. I know SRV had that gauge on his Strat and he tuned flat to make it easier on his left hand. I kept intending to add two more springs but never got around to it. 013-.056 strings on it and had to detune to C# so the thing wouldn't buck up. I would have preferred tuning problems to the amount of tone/sustain I perceived that it diminished. The downsides I perceived were that it was a massive pain to set up, and that it sucked the tone and sustain outta the guitar. The FR stayed in tune pretty good, actually. The neck is always the one thing that'll make or break a guitar for me, above all else. On the other hand, every time I try an AmerDeluxe, the neck is like sweet buttah. The other reason I dislike that guitar is the neck.
Calaham bridge for tom anderson guitars upgrade#
I bought the thing intending to upgrade the pickup, and got the FR model because I figured it would have more bells and whistles than the normal trem. not sure the model but it's a 400w solid state. I practice on a Hartke practice bass amp, and I jam on a Peavy 2x12. One day I want to run through two amps, one clean the other dirty. I usually run on pure clean, no effects or distortion or anything.
It all comes down to what you want in the end though. That's why my vintage guitars still have there vintage trems. Personally, I like historically correct guitars. But the Wilkinson would be a slight upgrade. It's a fact that a Fender Strat bridge will never stay in tune 100% all the time. If you want tuning stability in a fender trem you either screw it down to the body or block it. A floating setup is the basic setup for a vintage strat trem. you can set a vintage style trem up to "float" it won't have the same range as a FR but it will give you the ability to sharpen notes slightly. If you're worruied about rocking forward and back. I have vintage trems on both my strats and I wouldn't change them for anything. But in the end doesn't make much of a difference. The "locking" pertains to the fact that the bridge has locking nuts that you screw down onto each individual string to keep them in place. :DĪ Wilkinson tremolo on a Vintage style trem Strat would be no different in range than the stock style vintage bridge. whether for jazz or grind/death/noise/puke core metal. when I'm done with that thing, it'll be a serious tone monster.
Calaham bridge for tom anderson guitars plus#
namely, the "Nailbomb" humbucker plus two "Irish Tour" single coils. I would plan on replacing the pickups (as good as they may be on that model) with an HSS set from Bare Knuckle. And I'll be using big fat jazz strings (.056-.013), for I am delighted to find (according to the replacement parts section of the Fender website) that the LSR Roller Nut can accomodate such a massive gauge. Tone and sustain matter a lot to me because I plan on running it through two amps simultaneously, clean and dirty (with the occasional stomp of a metal pedal that precedes the A/B-Y box on the chain). If I go with the regular Fender trem, I would get a replacement from Callaham because I hear tell it is made of better metals and will give back a lot of the tone that such a trem would normally diminish. I know the Wilkinson was designed to be far less of a pain (no locking nut, don't have to snip the ball ends, etc.), but does it bleed out the precious tone/sustain like the Floyd Rose does?Īnd how does it compare to the Fender trem in terms of how it effects the tone/sustain? It's a massive and it sucks the tone right outta the guitar, and murders sustain. biggest guitar-related mistake I ever made. However, I have a MIM Strat with a Floyd Rose, and I hate it hate it hate it!!! I despise Floyd Rose. In principle I would prefer a locking tremolo because it goes two ways and not just one. Well, as far as stock goes, it seems I will have a choice between the standard Fender tremolo, and the locking Wilkinson tremolo. Maybe after a while I would order a chambered replacement body (I'd go with ash but then there's the possibility of neck dive what about mahogany?) from Warmoth, routed for a Kahler. If there was a fixed bridge version, I would either keep it that way or get it retrofitted for a Kahler trem. I wish it came in a fixed bridge version, but that's okay.
I really want to get a Fender American Deluxe Strat (HSS).
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