I must have missread your op. I thought you were saying it moves fine all strung up, with the tension spring loose. It sounds like the string plate is hitting for sure. Have you looked for pictures of an AVRI body without the trem installed? It might give you an idea of how far the route needs to b...

rodvonbon wrote:Damn that looks good. Love the color.

Thanks, man! It's taken me a year to get it to this point Finishing isn't easy in San Francisco

It seems odd that it works okay with the tension spring loose, but binds up when it's tightened. The movement of the trem should have the same clearance no matter how tight the spring is, shouldn't it? I would suggest only stringing up both E strings until you figure it out, that way you don't have...

gaybear wrote:i have no good info, but just wanna say welcome to the board, and yay for a new person making a good initial thread

Thanks for the kind welcome, gaybear!

Hi! My Jag build has a tremolo problem. It's a Guitar Mill body and AVRI trem. Symptom is that it feels like the back of the trem plate is hitting the edge of the tremolo route. The problem is that I think I've sanded the edge of the route enough so that the plate should not be hitting i, and the co...