Classic Player series gets a makeover.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 10:57 am

Weird. None of the ones I've come across have done that (although that could be due to how they were set up / different versions of the trem).

This site's pretty good at explaining how they work.

George · Post by **George** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:03 am

ekwatts wrote:Yeah, I think some locks have a groove cut into them so if you engage them correctly it locks the trem from moving up and down. Pretty sure I noticed that on my Japanese Jaguar last time I opened it up. Never really use it and it's at a friends house at the moment so I can't check. It's possible that it only does that on the certain models but my Jag was all busted to fuckery when I got it and I ended up replacing a ton of bits on the trem and I'm not sure where some of the parts came from.

i would really love to see photos of this. genuinely interested because it sounds like what all jag trems should be like

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:26 am

Yeah, that does sound like how they ought to work.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:42 am

You can't have it totally locking without mods. The locking button would have to be way bigger to fit in the plates of the trem, as the plates you'd want to fit in the notch are thicker than the actual locking button itself, you would definitely need a much bigger button with a large notch to work.

The tension screw is there to make adjustments depending on what gauge strings you're using. Just like adjusting the tension on a Strat trem, if it's done right it'll return to pitch/stay in tune much better. Tension should be set so that you can just engage the lock without altering tuning. It's designed to be set up for use without the lock, then if you break a string you depress the bar, engage the lock and hey presto you're back in tune. It's not designed to be a lock/hardtail method.That's why you can still engage pitch the bar down while the trem lock is on. It retains your tuning while still giving you use of the whammy, albeit a little reduced in travel.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:58 am

stewart wrote:
BearBoy wrote:No. You can still push the trem down when the lock engaged, just not pull it up.
Not on my '66, it locks it completely (although that could be partly to do with how the trem is set).

Snap a pic next string change. It'd be interesting to see what's going on there. When I got the gold 62 trem or whatever it was for my Jazzmaster it was all sorts of fucked up. I installed it without really looking at it and with the strings on the trem acted all screwy. I took it off to have a look and at some point the previous owner has taken the thing apart and put the plates back together incorrectly. It was an easy fix but I wonder if yours is the same. Maybe it was a mod people used to do back in the day..

71Smallbox · Post by **71Smallbox** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 8:15 pm

According to that link, the radius is 7.25" for all of those nerds out there

but the lack of a trem lock makes them go *fuuuuuuu*