fender trem one or two way?

[bobble991]

Can you set a fender 6 screw for pitch raising AND lowering or does the design only permit lowering? If it can be set to raise the tone how do I set it up?

Thanks
Bobble

[Runewalker]

bobble991 said:

Can you set a fender 6 screw for pitch raising AND lowering or does the design only permit lowering? If it can be set to raise the tone how do I set it up?

Thanks
Bobble

not recommednded, but you could trim the slight bit of wood under the pivot and remove some of the front of the inertia block cavity to increase available arc.

Or just precisely drill two post holes for a 2 point pivot style, albeit you still will probably have to remove wood for arc space. The six old hole may or may not be covered by the double pivot tremolo plate.

[dunkelfalke]

there a special screws for converting a vintage vibrato to a floating one:

[giuseppe]

Where do you get them? Is is just a matter of replacing the orignial screws with these?

[Happyguy]

All that I did was loosen up the tremolo springs. I think that it is quite commonly done. But the amout that you can raise the pitch is not worth everything going out of tune when you break a string. (i think).

[dunkelfalke]

giuseppe said:

Where do you get them? Is is just a matter of replacing the orignial screws with these?

in europe at rockinger.com

and yes, just replace the original screws.

[sumgai]

Tha's funny...... I've been loosening the springs for years and years, on both 2 and 6 screw bridges, and I've never had a problem, nor have I evern needed to use special screws.

Special notched screws? Hmmmm, let's introduce a weak point, and we'll sell even more of these things. ;D

I don't see a need to route a depression into the body below the back end of the bridge plate, or otherwise remove wood from anywhere. I purposely set the bridge to be a bit higher anyway, the tone block is sitting pretty close to the half-way point of the available arc. Now, when I press hard enough, I can easily raise the pitch two full semi-tones. If I need more than that, I can simply do both a left hand string bend and a right hand bridge bend - this can get wild, much wilder than my playing style would ever call for.

The only caveat here is that I do need to shim the neck up a little bit. I just cut a standard stock business card about 2" long and 3/4" wide. I fold it over twice (three thicknesses), and tape it down in the neck pocket as close to the pups as possible. That's all I need to give me the proper string height at the bridge. Adjust the intonation, then the pickup heights, and away I go!


sumgai