Question Leaving JP6 trem bar on while in the case

[Sevenstringer]

I know it can be done and there are cutouts for it on the case lid
Do you guys do this?
I always think it will come off in transit and damage the guitar
Thoughts??

 

[savannah_sean]

I don't remove the trem arm on my JP's, I've never had any problems. Sometimes I'll accidentally try to close the case without noticing that the arm is at some skew angle and I have this brief "what the...?" moment when the case doesn't close, but fortunately that's a problem that even I can fix.

 

[Spudmurphy]

No problem - keep the trem arm in - I really can't see see how it can come out in the case??????

 

[DrKev]

+1 Spud.

Mine clicks in pretty firm and needs a good tug to get it out so I can't see it coming out at all.

 

[Sevenstringer]

A W E S O M E !!!!!!
Thanks guys
I might just start leaving it in from now on

 

[ScoobySteve]

Most SKB cases have the cutout to allow the trem to still be attached with no problems.

 

[bazxkr]

Does the case lib clear the arm or press on it even slightly ? Guess there are two issues to worry about... if it touches the arm and pulls the strings keeping higher tension as well as the possibility of it flying about if it comes loose

I've always taken them off ...will have to measure the clearances

Cheers
Baz

 

[Spudmurphy]

my first experience of EB guitars was in a local guitar shop. They had just taken delivery of a brand new Albert with trem, and the shop owner tutted as he opened the case saying something along the lines of "... ... they never take the trem arm out!".

Wind forard a little while .. I now own an EB guitar with a trem and I'm wondering about the trem. So I placed the guitar in the case with the trem arm in, I strummed the guitar and closed the case lid - you could still hear the guitar and it hadn't altered pitch. So my conclusion was /is, that the trem is not touched when the case lid is closed. Try it?
Another thing - I really can't see how the trem arm could come out. There really isn't much room for it to pop out of the trem block. It's safer in there than being loose in the case.

 

[BFR]

What about the BFR case?

 

[Spudmurphy]

Not lucky enough to have a BFR

But I do have a LE and that case is the same insofar as you can leave the trem in.

Anybody with a BFR wanna try out my "case experiment" stated above and report back?

 

[DrKev]

if it touches the arm and pulls the strings keeping higher tension as well as the possibility of it flying about if it comes loose

If you have a floating bridge the arm would have to be pointing away from the neck to raise the pitch of the strings. As it's not, it can only drop the pitch. So I don't think that's an issue. I would take mine off - the extra couple of seconds here or there is no big deal. Either way, in so many years on this forum, I can't say I have ever heard of any problem caused by leaving the trem arm in place.

 

[dhalif]

always have left my trem arm on all my musicmans.. even when i flew overseas with them

 

[TheShreddinHand]

Can't leave it on in the BFR case. It will touch the top underside of the lid altering the pitch. So i guess you could leave it on but run the risk of your guitar siting in the case with the strings not at the correct tension.

Eric

 

[Spudmurphy]

Can't leave it on in the BFR case. It will touch the top underside of the lid altering the pitch. So i guess you could leave it on but run the risk of your guitar siting in the case with the strings not at the correct tension.

Eric

So there we have it - thanks for trying it out

 

[TheShreddinHand]

So there we have it - thanks for trying it out

Yeah, I've owned 4 previous JP BFRs and now the JPXI and it was true of all of them. Sure, you can leave it on, but depending on which way the bar is facing when you shut the lid it's either raising or lowering the bridge ever so slightly and I definitely don't want my guitar sitting in there like that!

Eric

 

[Roubster]

That's what I always loved about the SKB cases as I never had to take off the trem arm from my Silo Special. Unfortunately the G&G cases with BFRs or 20th Silos for instance you have to take it off.

 

[jam3v]

I never take the trem arm off my JPX. I also never use it. Go figure!