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  • November 16, 2009 at 6:52 pm #79328
    TheCapitalJ
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    cast your vote

    November 16, 2009 at 7:13 pm #103815
    BlueSteel
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    i’d have to go with fixed bridge.

    November 16, 2009 at 7:19 pm #103816
    electro-melx
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    I voted fixed.

    ……although I love guitars with trems… setting them up annoys me.

    November 16, 2009 at 9:07 pm #103817
    firesgt911
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    I’m a strat guy, but deffinately prefer fixed bridges. I never use the trem.

    November 16, 2009 at 9:44 pm #103819
    Dreamhunter
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    I like the vibratos like the ones on the Jaguar/Jazzmaster (i think that is what is really a floating vibrato, not the ones on strats?). I have a bigsby on my main guitar, a Gretsch, and i like it, but i hate changing strings on it. It is a nightmare!!!

    November 16, 2009 at 10:39 pm #103822
    firesgt911
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    I like the vibratos like the ones on the Jaguar/Jazzmaster (i think that is what is really a floating vibrato, not the ones on strats?). I have a bigsby on my main guitar, a Gretsch, and i like it, but i hate changing strings on it. It is a nightmare!!!

    Bigsby’s look GORGEOUS!!!

    November 16, 2009 at 11:30 pm #103827
    cabomano
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    I like the vibratos like the ones on the Jaguar/Jazzmaster (i think that is what is really a floating vibrato, not the ones on strats?). I have a bigsby on my main guitar, a Gretsch, and i like it, but i hate changing strings on it. It is a nightmare!!!

    Bigsby’s look GORGEOUS!!!

    They’re great fun, but I’m not going near a Bigsby equipped guitar until I have a roadie to change the strings on it…

    November 16, 2009 at 11:56 pm #103831
    BlueSteel
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    I like the vibratos like the ones on the Jaguar/Jazzmaster (i think that is what is really a floating vibrato, not the ones on strats?). I have a bigsby on my main guitar, a Gretsch, and i like it, but i hate changing strings on it. It is a nightmare!!!

    i love the bigsby on my gretsch, but you’re right, changing the strings is horrible.

    November 17, 2009 at 6:26 am #103838
    Dreamhunter
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    Yeah, i love the look of Bigsbys too! Oh, the sacrifices we must do to beauty!!! Lol. I can’t wait to put locking tuners on my guitar at least, i hope that will make changing the strings easier and faster.

    November 17, 2009 at 7:09 am #103840
    Mr.Grim
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    i voted fixed even tho the one i currently use the most has a Floyd Rose. thats because the other guitars i built are ether still being built or under sum type of refinish or modding.

    i usually prefer the stop bar tail piece with tunamatic style bridge, like on a LP, all my other guitars have that combo, except the bridges have been replaced with Wilkinson roller bridge, it looks mostly the same except it has roller wheels instead of notched blades for saddles.

    i do a lot of setups repairs and intonations, that even a Floyd Rose setup is no prob for me, i actually enjoy it and get off on showing people how fast and simple it is (lol…showoff)

    the one i currently use i get no probs from my set ups. never goes out of tune or anything.

    November 21, 2009 at 7:35 am #104009
    John J
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    im shocked to see this! not only did humbuckers top the pickups poll, but not many people like trem bars?

    not what i would have expected.

    November 21, 2009 at 6:43 pm #104033
    julian
    Moderator

    IF I have to have trem, I’m going with floating or bigsby. I’ve got two guitars with floating trems, and they’re pretty cool. I have two guitars with two-piece tune-o-matics, which as cool too. Then I’ve got a couple simpler two piece bridge guitars, no intonation adjustment, and a tailpiece of some sort.

    Floating’s nice because you have a trem if you want to use it, but you don’t have to.

    November 21, 2009 at 10:02 pm #104048
    cabomano
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    im shocked to see this! not only did humbuckers top the pickups poll, but not many people like trem bars?

    not what i would have expected.

    I voted fixed earlier on but just spent about an hour wigglin’ away on my Strat. It’s a pain when a string brakes mid-song during a gig (mine’s not set flat so it goes horribly out of tune) but it’s an awful lot of fun. :)

    November 23, 2009 at 8:59 am #104105
    Ned Flanders
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    The is question is flawed as a bridge and tremolo are two different things. it should be “floating trem or stop tail” as both still require bridges!

    I’ll take the jazzmaster/jaguar tremolo over any other any day BTW!

    November 23, 2009 at 2:48 pm #104110
    TenSecondTed
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    Fixed bridge.

    I just sit my wrist bone on my LP tunamatic – the most comfortable position ever. Vibrato comes from the fingers.

    Strat style trems just remind me of Hank Marvin. Bigsby’s are cool – they just look ‘rock and roll’ :rawk:

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