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I just had a count up of whammy equipped guitars to fixed bridge guitars I have. Results were interesting, to me anyway....

Solid body electrics - 10 currently.
Fixed bridge guitars - 2.
Trems that are locked off/blocked off - 0.
Trems that are full floating - 6
Trems that are dive only - 2 *edit for clarity*

so 80% of my guitars have trems, which I use - normally without even thinking as I keep reaching for a bar on the tele (oh god I might have to fit a bigsby onto it!) So I don't do any big divebomb stuff, just the odd dip or touch of it, maybe a chirp.

Just an observation - anyone else really like to wobble their wanger 80% or more of the time? :mental:
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Solid body electrics: 6
Trem bridge: 1
Fixed bridge: 5

Trem bridge never gets played.

Go back 20 years, when I wanted to be Jeff Hanneman, trem bridge was used 95%

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Bg wrote:I just had a count up of whammy equipped guitars to fixed bridge guitars I have. Results were interesting, to me anyway....

Solid body electrics - 10 currently.
Fixed bridge guitars - 2.
Trems that are locked off/blocked off - 0.
Trems that are full floating - 6

so 80% of my guitars have trems, which I use - normally without even thinking as I keep reaching for a bar on the tele (oh god I might have to fit a bigsby onto it!) So I don't do any big divebomb stuff, just the odd dip or touch of it, maybe a chirp.

Just an observation - anyone else really like to wobble their wanger 80% or more of the time? :mental:
So...if (out of 10), 6 have trems and 2 are fixed. What are the other 2?

Also, edit:

Solidbodies: 3
2 strat standard trems (floating, setup with minor thirds up bend)
1 tele fixed bridge
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Solid body electrics: 5
Fixed bridge guitars: 2
Trems that are locked off/blocked off - 1
Trems that are full floating - 2
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I fix all of my Trems. I'd be another thing I'd have to learn to use - so I've put it in the too hard basket!!!! :-)
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2x FR Trem
4x Fixed

Guitars with trem are in serious need of a setup though.

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LucyTheSpud wrote:
Bg wrote:I just had a count up of whammy equipped guitars to fixed bridge guitars I have. Results were interesting, to me anyway....

Solid body electrics - 10 currently.
Fixed bridge guitars - 2.
Trems that are locked off/blocked off - 0.
Trems that are full floating - 6

so 80% of my guitars have trems, which I use - normally without even thinking as I keep reaching for a bar on the tele (oh god I might have to fit a bigsby onto it!) So I don't do any big divebomb stuff, just the odd dip or touch of it, maybe a chirp.

Just an observation - anyone else really like to wobble their wanger 80% or more of the time? :mental:
So...if (out of 10), 6 have trems and 2 are fixed. What are the other 2?

Also, edit:

Solidbodies: 3
2 strat standard trems (floating, setup with minor thirds up bend)
1 tele fixed bridge
I should change that, by implication there are 8 guitars with trems - 6 full floating and 2 dive only....
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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AiRdAd wrote:I fix all of my Trems. I'd be another thing I'd have to learn to use - so I've put it in the too hard basket!!!! :-)
You don't have to use them much, like me :) I just like to be able to wobble them on occasion. Just a dip on a harmonic can be pretty effective. I don't exactly do squealies or bad horsies or anything haha.

I just didn't realise how much I use them till I picked up the tele earlier and reached for the bar so many times in a space of 10 minutes lol... perhaps its just early onset alzheimer's.
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HackSaw wrote:2x FR Trem
4x Fixed

Guitars with trem are in serious need of a setup though.
You should set them up, when set up right they just hold tuning perfectly if nothing else!
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JHorner wrote:Solid body electrics: 6
Trem bridge: 1
Fixed bridge: 5

Trem bridge never gets played.

Go back 20 years, when I wanted to be Jeff Hanneman, trem bridge was used 95%
I don't even know who he is... lol. If you'd said jeff beck I'd understand.
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6 solid body electrics all up, 4 fixed and 2 have full floating trems. I enjoy fanging the whanger, I usually find myself reaching for it subconsciously too.
Loving it so far

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Bg wrote:
LucyTheSpud wrote:
Bg wrote:I just had a count up of whammy equipped guitars to fixed bridge guitars I have. Results were interesting, to me anyway....

Solid body electrics - 10 currently.
Fixed bridge guitars - 2.
Trems that are locked off/blocked off - 0.
Trems that are full floating - 6

so 80% of my guitars have trems, which I use - normally without even thinking as I keep reaching for a bar on the tele (oh god I might have to fit a bigsby onto it!) So I don't do any big divebomb stuff, just the odd dip or touch of it, maybe a chirp.

Just an observation - anyone else really like to wobble their wanger 80% or more of the time? :mental:
So...if (out of 10), 6 have trems and 2 are fixed. What are the other 2?

Also, edit:

Solidbodies: 3
2 strat standard trems (floating, setup with minor thirds up bend)
1 tele fixed bridge
I should change that, by implication there are 8 guitars with trems - 6 full floating and 2 dive only....
Ah im with ya now. I used to have 1 strat floating and 1 strat dive only but i always just end up missing the upward bend if i dont have it on the bar. Bend a note with your hand, then bend up with the bar. 2 stage bending anywhere up to a minor 6th. Great fun. Add a whammy pedal (or eventide in my case) and you have a cool effect of bending an octave in 3 harmonic stages.
Root note
Minor 3rd
P5th
Octave

Sounds awesome.

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5 Electrics
1 x JM Vibrato
2 x Bigsby
2 x Fixed

I love playing with my wanger.

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Post by willow13 »

so I have 4 electrics .......... ( :shifty: )

7 x full floating floyds

1 x dive only floyd

2 x Vtrem dive only

2 x Vtrem "fixed" (four springs)

5 x fixed bridge

Now I also have 5 or 6 on the work bench waiting for bits with most of them being floating floyds
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4 archtops with Bigsbys
1 solid top blocked off
1 solid top with trem
Epiphone Riviera P93 & EJ200CE, Hagstrom Viking Bass, Doubleneck bass/guitar.
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