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Re: Bridge Problems (What's New)

7/7/2000 10:35 AM
anonymous	Re: Bridge Problems (What's New) "I think Kurt is referring to the fact that the Floyd is mounted on the 2 screws - which don't transfer vibration to the body as well as a non-trem bridge." - aron ----------------------- One second... the two fulcrum screws are 1) way thicker (7mm diameter) and those tiny screws made by Fender an thicker as those by Wilkinson 2) they are made of hardened steel 3) if a threadened rod is inserted into the body, it has even more diameter (10 to 13 mm) and thus more area to transmit vibration. Kurt said: EXACTLY! Seymour Duncan has a pickup called "trembucker" that is designed to reduce the effect of these problems but I would use a fixed bridge if I dont need the tremelo. Most guitarists prefer to buy guitars with floyd rose even if they dont need it (at least this is true in my country), because they have no idea about what is wrong with it. -Kurt Kurt, the trembucker was designed to solve the poor string-polepiece alignment of traditional humbuckers in conjunction with Fender bridges. A Gibson bridge has a narrower string spacing, and thus the e strings on a Fender do not run over the pole pieces of a vintage dimensioned humbucker placed at the bridge. The "Trembucker '59" by SD is nothing else than the normal '59 with a greater distance between the pole pieces. The same applies for DiMarzio pickups which are available in 'normal' and 'F-spaced'. I think that the two objections presented here are not valid. Any other objections?

7/7/2000 10:35 AM

anonymous

Re: Bridge Problems (What's New)

"I think Kurt is referring to the fact that the Floyd is mounted on the 2 screws - which don't transfer vibration to the body as well as a non-trem bridge." - aron
-----------------------

One second...
the two fulcrum screws are
1) way thicker (7mm diameter) and those tiny screws made by Fender an thicker as those by Wilkinson
2) they are made of hardened steel
3) if a threadened rod is inserted into the
body, it has even more diameter (10 to 13 mm)
and thus more area to transmit vibration.

Kurt said:
EXACTLY!
Seymour Duncan has a pickup called "trembucker" that is designed to reduce the effect of these problems but I would use a fixed bridge if I dont need the tremelo. Most guitarists prefer to buy guitars with floyd rose even if they dont need it (at least this is true in my country), because they have no idea about what is wrong with it.

-Kurt

Kurt,
the trembucker was designed to solve the
poor string-polepiece alignment of traditional humbuckers in conjunction with Fender bridges.
A Gibson bridge has a narrower string spacing,
and thus the e strings on a Fender do not run
over the pole pieces of a vintage dimensioned
humbucker placed at the bridge.
The "Trembucker '59" by SD is nothing else
than the normal '59 with a greater distance between the pole pieces. The same applies for DiMarzio
pickups which are available in 'normal' and
'F-spaced'.

I think that the two objections presented here are not valid.
Any other objections?

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