guitarman Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 THIS is a cool forum and I am learning plenty. Two questions burning me now. 1. I have purchased a swamp ash strat body, unfinished and it is routed for a tremolo. I don't use em!! I could install the trem and just tighten the springs, or is there a bridge I can somehow mount to make this thing a hardtail??? 2. I want to bisect this strat right down the middle with two colours and it has to be accurate to look good. I need it so accurate that the pickguard covers can be divided right in the middle of the posts and can also be painted two colours. Can I give the body to a pro to paint, using the pickup routs and neck routs as the reference point. Could the pro paint dead center of those two points and then the pickups would line up perfect....or should I get the neck and pickups and everything built on, then paint the body. Love to hear any opinions or experience on this one. Thanks again for your earlier help!!! You rock! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarman Posted November 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 nobody has an opinion or an idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 No personal experience with them...but here you go: http://www.tailfeatherz.com/ Travis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SawDust_Junkie Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Hey Guitarman, I am the same as you. I never play tremolo, but on my Strat (with the vintage tremolo system) I have tightened the bridge screws all the way down, and tightened the springs as you talked about. This in effect gives you a hardtail bridge, so to speak. The tremolo will still work bending froward, but it takes a good of pressure to move it, and the backward movement of the tremolo is eliminated because the back of the bridge plate is resting against the body of the guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvertonessuckbutigotone Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 maybe with the finish (if I understand you correctly) you could paint the whole body one color then measure the middle on every pickup route and mark it then use a ruler and draw a line connecting all three marks, then tape along the line and spray the next color? this would work if you want to do this type: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 Try this from the mainpage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guitarman Posted November 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 awesome replies guys!!! You rock!!! I have added the non-tremolo project and the tail-feather to my list of favourites and I will talk with a qualified tech and see what we wanna do. Silvertonessuckbut I got one... The big issue with splitting the colours (exactly as you have shown..nice work!) is that I also want to split the pickups colour as well. So it has to be PRECISE!!! I'm thinking I will ask the tech to mount the neck, bridge and hardware....then I can easily mark the centerline on the guitar. Making sure it runs right between the pole peices in the pickups for a perfect split personality!! It is not much to take the neck and bridge off and the guitar will not be wired up yet....so I can make my marks and bring the thing to a pro to paint wihout worries. I have not divulged the entire design....but I think it will be striking. Swamp ash strat body with mighty mite ebony neck with 22 jumbo frets....next comes three fender hot noiseless pickups and a tbx boost. That ought to make some noise. Thanks to all for the suggestions....VERY helpful. Guitarman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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