Question for Bronco owners

The original shortscale guitars; Mustangs, Duo-Sonics, Musicmasters, Jaguars, Broncos, Jag-stang, Jagmaster, Super-Sonic, Cyclone, and Toronados.

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mustang bars are too big for the hole
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robroe wrote:mustang bars are too big for the hole
oh man that sounds really dirty! :shock: :lol:
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I've actually never thought to try a vintage mustang trem arm. That might work, but the reissue ones certainly do not work.
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Anybody who owns both guitats with the tremolos willing to check that and maybe take a picture for us?

The Bronco Tremolo is very similiar to the Jaguar tremolo.
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They are more different than I thought.
I had previously measured them with a crappy vernier at the arm section and assumed they were the same diameter.

The longer one is Mustang (well Jagstang, but they're the same)
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Jagstang/mustang bar
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Bronco bar
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If i needed to I would buy the Mustang bar and run a 5mm drill down the retainer on the Bronco.
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Post by ploppy »

I was told that the usa mustangs were 3/18 across and would fit however the newer mij versions are 5mm ans so wont fit.
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Post by Billy3000 »

AddamInsane wrote:They are more different than I thought.
I had previously measured them with a crappy vernier at the arm section and assumed they were the same diameter.

The longer one is Mustang (well Jagstang, but they're the same)
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Jagstang/mustang bar
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Bronco bar
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If i needed to I would buy the Mustang bar and run a 5mm drill down the retainer on the Bronco.
If that's a jag-stang bar then it's a reissue bar, we're talking about if a VINTAGE mustang trem bar would fit a bronco trem.