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Originally Posted by The_Sentry
Seriously...on that Squier...it's the same deal as with the Epi's....you want to use the tremolo bar and keep that guitar in tune and have that much control over the pots and volume (like Beck)....then it's the usual upgrades. A better nut, better tuners, a better bridge...and better pots and caps. (Better pickups doesn't hurt either.) |
Honestly, I've found (and it took me a long damned time too) that simply the manner of stringing the guitars makes more of a difference than the hardware,
2 or 3 wraps with a natural string lock is all you need on the wounds,
Since i started doing this , I can slam and yank the bigsby all to shit, and it stays in tune, i can leave it alone for a week, and it stays in tune, I can play for hours and it hardly ever strays. My mim strat with modern tuners trem got super stable as well when I started stringing like shown
The vintage split posts like my vibes (just like standard bass tuners) make it even easier, just trim the string to two or three wraps, and you get an automatic lock, and great tuning stability
Its all the extra wraps in the string when you put a shit ton of winds on that kills tuning stability, all those wraps take 10 times the life of the string to get all the stretch out of, and tons of bending, and trem use will slowly get a little more of that stretch out every time....and can be simply eliminated by using very sparse winds.