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Hi guys! As per my other thread, I've been upgrading / modding my USA So Cal. This included blocking the trem w/ a FU brass trme stopper and installing an EVH DTuna. As you know the guitar came w/ 3 springs. To install the trem stopper I had to put two springs on the bass side and one spring on the treble side. The trem stopper is mounted in the center of the block, effectively creating another pivot point. Due to uneven tension from side to side it affects tuning, making the Dtuna inoperable. It also negates any benefit of blocking the trem from a string breakage standpoint. My question is, where can I get additional springs that are made for this guitar and match the existing springs? The website for Charvel refers these questions to FMIC who in turn gave me a part number for Stratocatser trem springs. Anyone know a place? Thanks in advance...
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Any guitar shop should have them. Or Stew Mac. Or another guitar that can afford to lose one."I would have banned you for taking part in hijacking and derailing a thread when you could have started your own thread about your own topic." - Unknown -
+1 to Stew Mac. They used to be sold four at a time, and I'd just swap out all the springs on any project I was working on. Now they are sold individually looks like? :think:
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Some place sells "magic" trem springs that allow you to capture V-Trem mojo in a strat. I can't remember what they were called but someone sold them for $10 on TGP and I had to say WTF?Comment
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Really? Doesn't a Strat have it's own mojo? That's not necessarily true... my Strat has almost no mojo.
"I would have banned you for taking part in hijacking and derailing a thread when you could have started your own thread about your own topic." - UnknownComment
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i heard these are really good if you only use two springs: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:ITComment
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With the springs I saw, they were special low tension springs that you use the entire set of 5. I guess it's the old more mass = more tone argument.Comment
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Interesting. I don't have the kind of ear that can hear those subtle differences that people claim to be able to hear. Maybe they can, but I certainly can't."I would have banned you for taking part in hijacking and derailing a thread when you could have started your own thread about your own topic." - UnknownComment
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