trem set-up: pictures better than words

[Rick C]

There have been a number of questions regarding tremolo set-up. I'm not going to rewrite my whole setup; I think I've done this three or four times on other threads already but in a nutshell, I dropped from standard slinky to extra slinky 00.8" to 0.038" and it took a lot of time, patience and many almost simultaneous moves to get the guitar action where I wanted without buzz and with a flat tremolo.

I have the action on the lower, base strings a little higher because the strings are so flexible that they tend to buzz a bit more when played harder.

Here are some pictures showing what it's like with really light strings.