Help! Advice of Silo Special Trem

[WeeGee]

Hi,

I've been offered a Silo Special as part exchange for another guitar. Haven't had a chance to try/see the guitar yet the the guy offering the trade sent a some photos. Apart from the trem, every thing looks ok and been returned to stock. Any ideas of the trem fitted as it isn't the standard vintage trem.

Finally, if I decide to go ahead with the trade, it'll be up for sale soon as I don't need 2 Silo Specials but I recall someone saying green guitars don't sell

 

[dstockden]

its the old wilkinson trem so it was the original when it was new.

 

[WeeGee]

Cheers Dave, thought it was a wilkinson trem (as I used to own an Eggle). Never knew they were fitted as standard to Silo Special.

 

[Jason2112]

I personally love those Wilkinson trems. I just put one on a Strat about 6 months ago (after trying a few different vintage-type trems on that guitar) and it sounds really good.

 

[John C]

Cheers Dave, thought it was a wilkinson trem (as I used to own an Eggle). Never knew they were fitted as standard to Silo Special.

Yep - the Silo Special had the Wilkinson bridge for the first couple of years.

One other thing - these original Silo Specials also used Grover locking tuners instead of the Schaller locking tuners. These Grovers were the ones with the thumbscrew on the top of the post - the string wraps around the post and the thumbscrew squeezes the string.

EBMM changed the guitar over to their in-house vintage trem and the Schallers in the same year (1996 or 1997 if I'm remembering correctly).

 

[skerwo]

Mine is a 1995 SS and had originally the Wilkinson VSV like on the picture and Grover Tuners. Meantime it got the Schaller Tuners which I like more a lot. The VSV is a very good trem, I had it already on several strats, it works well, sounds good, no need to change.

The SS from these early years are very fine guitars, so if you can live with the colour, make the deal.



Rainer

 

[Colin]

Hi,

I've been offered a Silo Special as part exchange for another guitar. Haven't had a chance to try/see the guitar yet the the guy offering the trade sent a some photos. Apart from the trem, every thing looks ok and been returned to stock. Any ideas of the trem fitted as it isn't the standard vintage trem.

Finally, if I decide to go ahead with the trade, it'll be up for sale soon as I don't need 2 Silo Specials but I recall someone saying green guitars don't sell

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