jojo was right : supervee bladerunner = crap

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Here is the proof : arm broke inside the block.







with only 3 springs ...

[sumgai]

gd,

Have you attempted yet to exercise your warranty rights?

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May 23, 2014 20:08:23 GMT -5 sumgai said:

gd,

Have you attempted yet to exercise your warranty rights?

yes, i asked for my money back. Since i sold the partscaster i had tried to sell the bladerunner with no luck. After failing that, i decided to install it to my old Aria strat, smth i would call an "upgrade". This Aria strat had all the tonal characteristics i wanted already, and adding the super-vee did absolutely nothing to the sound.

[sumgai]

May 23, 2014 22:32:47 GMT -5 @pyrros said:

.... adding the super-vee did absolutely nothing to the sound.

Ya know, some people would take that as a positive. It's usually the case whereby anything you do to an axe - add, subtract, move, whatever, changes the sound to some degree. I say, if you can add something that does absolutely nothing to change the sound, IOW, it's tonally neutral, then that item is worth talking about.

In a near-perfect world, the sound would not change just because we made some modification. Ideally, it would remain as we already had it set, without any surprises. When I put new tires on my truck, I don't expect it to suddenly get all squirrely and start acting like an SUV - tires shouldn't have that effect. I expect the vehicle to drive exactly as before, only perhaps with a bit less chance of blowing out or going flat, due to old age and lots of miles.


Our old friend ChrisK always bludgeoned us with the axiom "everything is ratio-centric". I know he was correct in that regard, though sometimes it's difficult to find the ratio that should concern the viewer. In the present case, that's not so - it's very easy to find the ratio. Here, I'll lay it out for ya:

When evaluating manufacturing claims, one need look only at how much money is being spent on Marketing, and how much is spent on Engineering and Production. The way Chris said it, if the Marketing Department is getting any money, then the ratio is already going in the wrong direction. IOW, the more money Marketing got and spent, the less there was left over for Engineering, etc. That means that Marketing had to use a lot of bullcrap-words in order to cover up the fact that the product was not nearly as good as they were trying to promote.

I know, I know... they all do it - they all over-promote their under-performing products. But that doesn't mean that any of them are correct, does it? Are some of them correct? Possibly. But I'm not gonna vouch for it, until I've personally tested it.

This explains why I never bought any gear that I hadn't personally heard at least a dozen times before, under varying circumstances. Call me an old geezer, but my "buyer's remorse quotient" has been almost disturbingly low these last few decades.

In any case, good luck on your adventure, I hope that SuprVee treats you right!






sumgai

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Thanx SG,
yes they said to send the unit back to them. I will ask for my money back, but what i will get best case will be a replacement unit which i will have a hard time to sell over ebay.
If i fail to sell it, basically i will have no guitar to fit it on, i might give it away here for free, if anyone is interested.

Its not a big deal, 200 lost euros over the biblical catastrophes that happen these days in our region, is nothing really.

[ux4484]

I don't know GD, looks to me you could take the block off and extract it pretty easy.
Of all the parts of that bridge, I would suspect the one "off the shelf" part would be the arm.
I don't think it says anything about the bridge itself, just that SV bought some cheap Trem arms.

It's not like any Fender arms have ever broken . I've seen quite a few over the years... Never seen anyone blame the bridge before .

I personally would blame myself, because the user interface is most often what fails in any mechanical, electro-mechanical, or electronic device.

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May 25, 2014 10:37:05 GMT -5 ux4484 said:

I don't know GD, looks to me you could take the block off and extract it pretty easy.
Of all the parts of that bridge, I would suspect the one "off the shelf" part would be the arm.
I don't think it says anything about the bridge itself, just that SV bought some cheap Trem arms.

It's not like any Fender arms have ever broken . I've seen quite a few over the years... Never seen anyone blame the bridge before .

I personally would blame myself, because the user interface is most often what fails in any mechanical, electro-mechanical, or electronic device.

the arm's design is unique to this bridge.

You wouldn't call this "off the shelf", would you?

The bridge itself is as Jojo had described. Semi-decent quality, with zinc saddles. My old bridge sounds better (more sustain) and has persisted much worse abuse (trem arm included) for much much longer , i can't exactly remember when i got it. The reason i scrapped the initial bridge is because i had broken the arm, but it was my fault from overturning over-tightening.

[ux4484]

IDK, sounds like a pattern to me.




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