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Brian_MAy
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Has anyone ever put a whammy bar on a gibson les paul? If so what does one have to do to do so?
timboZ
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mshilarious
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Even easier than a Bigsby:
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bridges...remolos/Les_Trem_Stop-Tailpiece_Tremolos.html
http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Bridges...remolos/Les_Trem_Stop-Tailpiece_Tremolos.html
Zaphod B
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I once played with a guitarist who had a Floyd Rose tremolo (with locking nut) installed on his Les Paul. Worked great.
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faderbug
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Zaphod B said:
'cept that it isn't an LP anymore
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easychair
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Bigsby? Hah! Just bend the neck.
MadAudio
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Interesting but it doesn't have a wide range.mshilarious said:
"The arm pivots the hinged rear string-mounting bar to sharpen or flatten the strings approximately one-half step."
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thevirgin
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I have an old Kahler and a locking nut on a 1980s LP special (reissue of a 1950s model) - bought it that way. It hooks over the tailpiece studs and requires a big hole routed into the top of the guitar. It is very sensitive and since I'm not a heavy wammy player it is mostly a pain. I will probably convert it back at some point.
sile2001
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Well...it DOES call itself a tremelo, and tremelo you can do with a range of +- 1/2 step. Sure, you're not gonna do any divebombs on it, but it will do tremelo.MadAudio said:
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edgarallanpoe
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Short scale and mahogany neck is not a good recipie for a Floyd. I can't tell you how many guitars I have seen with a mahogany neck and a Floyd that came to the shop with broken headstocks and buggered necks....mahogany neck with a Floyd is a *bad* idea. There is a reason why you don't see many of these made, the *vast* majority of these are after market jobs done by people who aren't aware of the problems inherent with that design. Maple neck is fine...but mahogany is a different story.
Light
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Brian_MAy said:
A few times. It makes a big change in the sound (loss of sustain, a change in the attack, and brightens it up a bit) of the instrument, and it will kill your resale value, so if your not sure, don't do it.
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M.K. Gandhi
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Brian_MAy said:
I thought it was illegal...
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ggunn
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Brian_MAy said:
Niel Young plays Les Pauls with Bixby tremelos on them.
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olfunk
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Light said:
do these theorys apply when using a whammy bar/tremolo on any given electric guitar? like a strat for instance?
Zaphod B
Raccoons-Be-Gone, Inc.
Sure it is!faderbug said:'cept that it isn't an LP anymore
It's just a LP that you'll never get your money out of!
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olfunk said:
Sure. Any change in energy transference will make a difference in the sound of a guitar, and all the more so on an electric. Trems make a big difference in how the energy gets transfered.
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thevirgin
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Yup, part of the vintage trem strats distinctive sound is due to the resonace of the trem block vibrating inside the through body trem route. The mass and material of a given strats trem block along with the springs used and the way they are set up all effect tone to some extent - there is much written about this if you search around. I think it works well on a strat because the neck and body woods and general construction are more resonant in the higher freqs (add that to the bright pickups than an LP.
Here is what a kahlerized and otherwise hacked LP looks like:
than an LP. Here is what a kahlerized and otherwise hacked LP looks like:
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