Black JT6 trem arms?

[artonsafari]

The push in arm on my Ibanez XV500's Pro Rocker fits my JT6

[Hellbat]

You know I thought back about this some this morning and I remembered that I did need to replace the original trem arm, because the original broke when I blow torched it to heat and bend it to a lower angle. I know the replacement was an original Ibanez edge arm. The friction spacers on the edge arm were positioned differently than the JT6, wider apart IIRC. Eventually the edge arm broke too when it broke off where the spacer section narrowed when I was removing it from the socket. My brain is telling me the original JT6 arm was still black, but it's not 100% certain. I just think I would have been more unlikely to blow torch a chrome one due to the discoloration that would happen.

[pianoguyy]

who has old catalogs!
look to see if any of the pictures show a black arm.

All I know is, I often wondered why the bar didn't match.

[Hellbat]

In the 1987 import catalog all the JT6's have chrome bars. The vtrem models had black.

[Axewielder]

Well I missed this thread before, but Budman claims there never were any black factory trems:

http://www.jcfonline.com/threads/72776-Charvel-3DR-jt-6-tremolo-arm-help

That might be as conclusive as we're going to get. DAMN now I feel like I overpaid.

[RobRR]

If ya'll really want black ones, I could always powdercoat them for ya!

[mike_bax]

I have only ever had a black arm for my Model 3, but i did buy the guitar used.

[MetalMedal II]

Nope, same Japanese company that made the Edge for Ibanez. Notice that they both came out at approximately the same time.

I thought the JT6 was made in Tawain? At least that's what the little sticker said that was on mine.

BTW, my Model 2 came w a chrome bar with extra plastic bushings for the arm in case those wore out. I never needed to replace them since the whole trem wore out first!