sample tremolo

Howdy Bison, I'm James and new here too.

Thanks for that perspective, you have given me something to think about. This arm I have now is simply 1/4" rod welded to a 5mm socket kinda bent at a 90 degree angel until I could figure out where to go with it.

Thanks for that perspective, you have given me something to think about. This arm I have now is simply 1/4" rod welded to a 5mm socket kinda bent at a 90 degree angel until I could figure out where to go with it.

You can pull up on the arm with your pinky at about 3" out on the arm so you could pick and operate it at same time. This design is actually quite customizeable as far as bridge plate setup, arm design and cam profile. It doesn't have to be one size fits all.

All good points and no offence at all taken. First let me explain the arm rotation, that came as a matter of necessity. A year ago I discovered with the first prototype that it took a crazy amount of effort to pull up on the arm. I was trying to raise as many notes as possible within the limits of what strings are capable of. In order to retain the pull up method I would have had to do a gear reduction (or cam) and the arm would have had to move out approaching 90 degrees. I had to have a certain range of motion in order to spread the effort over. So until a few months ago I was scratching my head wondering what to do. Then I had the light bulb moment and thought lets rotate this. I predict you will see other tremolo makers follow this in the future, one reason being is that it is a natural feeling movement. I plan in the future to develop an optional clockwise rotation for diving. My original thinking on developing a new type of tremolo was that I would make no comprises on function so I didn't bother with making it installation friendly. Honestly with this design it would be tough to make it smaller and it definitively would be a compromise. These are the things I was not going to compromise on: 1: Tuning stability, changing string gauges or drop/raise tuning has no effect on it. 2: No string lowering when going up on string tension, made for optimal string action setup. 3: Raise multiple notes, strings being the only limitation. 4: Idiot proof once it's installed, easy to use change strings, doesn't need tweaking I have had a few guitarist play with it, the first reaction is wow this is cool being able to raise notes like this. I am going to get a pro to make a demo video at some point, got to write the riffs for this thing first lol. So far the most interest expressed has been from the country music players, who knows what genre will find it most useful. The tone is different, very distinct. I am sure that will bring out some love/hate for it.

I emailed you a picture of an design idea I'm working on, any ideas for guitar to put this in appreciated. This is going to be a tough sell this new tremolo. Nobody is going to want to do heavy modifying to their mid-upper range guitar and there is no sense putting it in a cheap guitar.

If/when I get say at least 5 or so people that want one then I will make a batch. There are a lot of parts to this so it takes a lot of time to make, especially since I am working out of my garage lol. Here in Tulsa Ok where I live I'll let anyone who wants to try it out come over to my house. I have not come up with a game plan for other areas. How would you be distributing them? I take it would would be selling a batch of 5 or so? I had thought of doing some type of distributorship type of deal. Grant someone a certain area to be "factory authorized" to work on and install these, work up some kind of deal that makes everyone happy.

If/when I get say at least 5 or so people that want one then I will make a batch. There are a lot of parts to this so it takes a lot of time to make, especially since I am working out of my garage lol. Here in Tulsa Ok where I live I'll let anyone who wants to try it out come over to my house. I have not come up with a game plan for other areas.

No, completely different. It operates off of two different pivot points. On diving it rolls off of upper bearings, on raising string tension it rolls off of lower pivot bearings. You can see I had some strat type saddles on it, that is changed, just using that in testing. There is a cam internally that allows raising string tension by arm rotation. Here is facebook link that has a couple pictures http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sample-Tremolo/225421100810232

Hello to everyone, my name is James. I am here to learn about guitar building and also to show and answer questions about a new kind of guitar tremolo that I developed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rwPm7jOrdpw