no-name Jazz trem?

brandon. · Post by **brandon.** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:36 am

Has anyone tried this out from guitarpartsresource?

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$40 vs $70 cij but no trem lock.

worth it for the savings?
it would be going on a stay-at-home most of the time guitar, so I'm not too concerned with strings breaking and it going out of tune.

What do you think?

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:50 am

angela instruments sells a fender japan trem unit with the lock for $38, shipping is sorta pricey but maybe you can balance it out if you need other parts.

brandon. · Post by **brandon.** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:00 am

haha oh shit.

$30 shipping for a $38 part.

weed_killer · Post by **weed_killer** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:56 pm

I had one once, but I never actually had a chance to use it because I ended up getting mim one instead. You should be able to find a used mij one for close to the same price.

patrickcurran21 · Post by **patrickcurran21** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:50 am

the squier j mascis I played for a couple hours had one... and the jazzy build I'm about to finish has one. So in the 3 hours I've spent with one of these trems, they were perfectly fine. I may modify the one I have and put a locking mechanism of some sort on it at some point

iCEByTes · Post by **iCEByTes** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:34 am

too bad gotoh donÂ´t make high quality Replicas of those tremolos , jag and mustang

h8mtv · Post by **h8mtv** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:55 am

$7.30 shipping to me. Crazy.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:02 am

it might be the same one that is on my Guitar Fetish Jazzmaster.......

i mean i don't play the thing every day or beat the shit out of it, but it works just as good as my AVRI jaguar

lots of guts photos in here

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtop ... ight=jt100

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brandon. · Post by **brandon.** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:31 pm

...sounds like this no-name trem is the one for me.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:57 pm

Most folks say they don't need the lock anyways. Me? I think its a GODSEND because I'm flipping between standrad and drop D all the time. One of the greatest trem features ever IMHO.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:07 pm

if it's cheaper to ship to the US, just ship it to me and i'll post it off to you.

kypdurron · Post by **kypdurron** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:58 pm

Dave wrote:Most folks say they don't need the lock anyways. Me? I think its a GODSEND because I'm flipping between standrad and drop D all the time. One of the greatest trem features ever IMHO.

how exactly does the trem lock help here? I'm still tring to figure what I could need it for ...

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:03 pm

if you tune the low E down to D you let out tension across the whole trem plate and all the strings will go sharp. so if you don't have a trem lock you basically have to retune the entire guitar if you want change the tuning of one string.

it's the same on pretty much any vibrato unit and can be noticed when you're tuning the guitar. you can tune string A to pitch, then string B, then go back to string A and it will be flat because of the tension from string B. this is why it takes a while to tune a guitar with a vibrato. if you have the trem lock set right (so it locks the trem right in it's normally balanced position) it makes tuning much quicker because the trem is not moving around every time you change the tuning of one string.

Cagethelephant · Post by **Cagethelephant** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:49 pm

I would never buy a cheap trem/bridge that's where most of your tone comes from aside for. Wood of course

brandon. · Post by **brandon.** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:35 pm

it would have a mustang bridge. the trem would be more for wobbly guitar strings and to get the bell like tone from behind the bridge.

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:46 pm

Cagethelephant wrote:I would never buy a cheap trem/bridge that's where most of your tone comes from aside for. Wood of course

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:59 pm

Cagethelephant wrote:I would never buy a cheap trem/bridge that's where most of your tone comes from aside for. Wood of course

Actually in all my experience with storebought and project Fender/Squier guitars, most of the guitar's entire personality, sound and general vibe comes from the neck, some of the feel and resonant properties come from the bridge (but not the tailpiece if they're separate parts). Virtually none of the sound is affected by the body wood if you compare identical bodies made of different woods with the same neck/bridge on them... subtle things like sustain can be affected slightly, but not in any huge way, especially on a JM/Jag type guitar (where the strings and the parts they're anchored to make even less of a connection with the body than on a strat/tele).