Question This is normal for JP 6?

[Dreamor]

I want to know, is it normal for my music man JP6, that there is a main bolt under the springs on the back of the body.

 

[Spudmurphy]

I want to know, is it normal for my music man JP6, that there is a main bolt under the springs on the back of the body.

Yeah I bleeb that is just where the trem posts sit in a threaded collet - I'll go check mine and be right back

 

[Spudmurphy]

Let's look under the hood!!

Here we go

Yup mine has it too - it's normal, all makes sense !

 

[Dreamor]

Let's look under the hood!!

Here we go

Yup mine has it too - it's normal, all makes sense !

Thx a lot! Big relief, it's just seemed strange for me.

 

[Bota]

@Spudmurphy,

Is there any particular reason for angled claw?

 

[Spudmurphy]

I was experimenting after reading a thread posted on this forum. can't remember the guitarists name - he was showing how good a squire was but he insisted on this type of trem set up. Was his name Carl Vermaulen or something like that?
Just in case someone else asks the grolsch tops under the claw make it (in my mind more stable when you pull up on the bar, - the springs lose their tension and the claw flops about. The rubber stops just help the claw go back to it's resting state when the claw is once again under tension with the springs)

 

[DrKev]

I was experimenting after reading a thread posted on this forum. can't remember the guitarists name - he was showing how good a squire was but he insisted on this type of trem set up. Was his name Carl Vermaulen or something like that?

Carl Verheyen. Great player, not a physicist.

In terms of tuning stability or trem function it makes no difference how the springs are arranged. (In fact where stability is concerned, reducing friction THE most important thing, and something Verheyen never mentioned in his video at all).The bridge is 'blind' - it only reacts to the total tension on the springs and what "shape" they are in is irrelevant. Whatever works for you is fine.

 

[Spudmurphy]

Ahhhh - yeah that's the bloke _Verheyen!! Well done DrK

 

[Adam_D]

Yeah DrKev is right! Friction reduction is the most important thing in trem stability, making sure the nut is well lubed, and the trem posts. Also making sure any contact points (i.e screws) are tight and non-wobbly will make a difference to stability!

A little chapstick applied to the trem posts does wonders if no one already knew that little trick