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Post by Ripper on Mar 9, 2007 1:19:00 GMT -5
My new Strat comes with 3 tremolo springs already installed.
Yet, it has a wee bag inside the case with 2 more, and explains how to put them on the guitar.
Whats the advantage of more springs?
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Post by sumgai on Mar 9, 2007 2:39:16 GMT -5
deep, You can use higher-gauge strings. In fact, that's the reason there were 5 springs in the first place. Back then, 53 years ago, there were no string sets with .011 first strings, let alone .010 or lighter. To them, a light set started at .012"!!! 5 springs were necessary (and still are) to keep things in balance. Nowadays, they still use the same old jig for drilling out the Inertia Block (aka the Tone Block), just in case there are any more Stevie Ray Vaughns out there. That's why you find 2 extra springs in every Strat package. (Not sure about Squiers and such, they may not include the extra springs.) Note that for the last decade or more, new Fenders have been shipping with .009 sets. Quite a philosophy shift, no?  We'd call them light (medium being .010"), but old timers would call them 'weenie' strings, made for wimps that don't want any tone. ;D HTH sumgai |
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Post by ux4484 on Mar 9, 2007 15:14:16 GMT -5
My black/chrome Squier Strat had the standard block that could take 5 springs, but only came with 3, but I think YMMV as I don't know if the box GC provided me with was even the actual box/w parts that it was shipped in.
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Post by lunaalta on Mar 9, 2007 18:40:20 GMT -5
He, he, I remember buying a banjo string for the sixth and shifting everything else down to get easy bending, way back in the nineteen sixties.
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We'd call them light (medium being .010"), but old timers would call them 'weenie' strings, made for wimps that don't want any tone. ;D
