Standard To Vintage Tremolo

[Metlupass2]

Has anyone ever swapped them? I just bought a super sport with a standard and would like to possibly if its not too much trouble put in a vintage. Is the vintage similar to the trem on the JP. I used to have a JP6 and really liked the trem on it. Where would I be able to find a vintage trem anyways?

Thanks,
Jim

 

[azazael]

Vintage Trem as far as im aware has always been the tremolo on a Super Sport?

 

[Metlupass2]

According to the website it says its optional

Ernie Ball Music Man Axis Super Sport Guitar

 

[douglasspears]

Standard - Music Man® strings-thru-the-body bridge of chrome plated, hardened steel with solid steel saddles Optional - Music Man® vintage tremolo Optional

I believe....

Standard = Hardtail (string through body)

Optional = Vintage Trem

 

[candid_x]

Jim, the option is either a hard tail or vintage trem.

 

[mbgreene]

The vintage trem is the only trem bridge option.

The standard referred to is the fixed bridge - string through hardtail

(edit) - I guess I'm the slowest typist

 

[Metlupass2]

Right, but I'm asking about swapping out the standard for the vintage

Pic of said guitar.

 

[Dizzy]

You'd basically have to butcher that sweet looking ASS.
(Major Routing / Drilling etc)

Leave it alone and get one with a trem

PS : Hardtails rule.

 

[robelinda2]

Woah! Definitely leave it, you would potentially bugger it up for good. For the cost of doing it surely you could find a trem super sport for not much more.

 

[spkirby]

What everyone else said, massive job, lots of risks, financially questionable...just buy one with a trem!

 

[DrGonzo5150]

+1
+1
+1

Routing = Bad.

Many a tasty guitar has it destroyed... haha EVH destroyer for instance..

 

[guertzi]

Leave it as it is and if you want a vintage vibrato, sell the guitar and get one that has one installed already from the factory.

If you swap your hard tail bridge for a vintage trem, you will definitely have a huge decrease in the value of your instrument, no matter how good the craftsman that does it might be.

Plus, you will experience a change in the tone of your guitar, because a lot of the body wood needs to be taken away, let alone the difference in sound that there is between a hard tail and a vibrato.

 

[azazael]

Also you will have a very hard time trying to obtain a MM vintage trem...

 

[Metlupass2]

Thanks guys. That's all I wanted to know. I will not be touching it. I was just wondering how difficult/expensive it might be.

 

[Astrofreq]

Sell it to me!!!