^ to be honest, that's probably me misinterpreting entirely what he's told me, he's been playing his SG in a band for about 8 years...

Thanks again for all the info.

^ Much appreciated. Yeah, I am erring on the side of taking it to pieces myself, I'm just a bit concerned by potential for damage courtesy of my complete ignorance...

I've just realised too that i've spelt tremolo wrong, several times. Ahem...

Hi, I'm new to the forum, hopefully someone can offer me some advice. I'm a total guitar novice, bought a beautiful second-hand surf-green Japanese Jag, to learn to play basically from scratch, but there are some problems with it. The main issue I have is the little springed metal 'tube' (I'm sorry,...