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View Poll Results: Strats: Do you float your bridge or deck it? | |||
floating | 26 | 39.39% | |
Decked | 23 | 34.85% | |
Not Sure | 1 | 1.52% | |
It's blocked | 16 | 24.24% | |
Voters: 66. You may not vote on this poll |
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Floating bridge on my Stratocaster.
I haven't played it in a while (Telecaster gets the most love these days) but I only ever use the tremolo bar to basically give chords (particularly minor) some colour. (Pull up but mostly push down). Very rarely do I use for individual notes like for example Hank Marvin does. The music store gave me something (small screw) so that the bar remains stiff (don't have to go looking for it) but I'm yet to give it a go. |
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My Strat has the 2-pin floating bridge and it stays in tune very well. I figured I might eventually deck it if required but hasn't been necessary.
I also don't use the bar either (the silver sticker is still covering the hole where the arm threads in). However, I do use the palm of my hand to provide tremolo effect (which only works with the bridge floating). Later Rob |
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There's also the Jim Root artist model, but it appears that's it for new hardtail Fender strats - two of them. I think there are hardtails available from other manufacturers, though.
I bought my hardtail specifically as a hardtail, because at that time there were no locking tremolo systems available and the Fender tremolos were famous for putting the guitar out of tune, as I saw first-hand from friends guitars. I've never missed it, honestly, but if I really wanted one I'd get a locking system and avoid all tuning problems.
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Hi DE
My 1992 American Strat Plus is now blocked (I had a luthier block it properly…yet not permanently). I do a lot of dropped D playing and that is impossible on Strats without blocking the bridge (or retuning at least 3 other strings after you drop the 6th to D). I don't use the tremolo so it was a personal choice based on my play. |
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---- My personal 'Strat' has a bridge that is bolted right to the top with no trem at all, so that is another option I use a Digitech Whammy if I want to get crazy |
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With its humbucker pickups and no tone controls, I'd suggest that the Jim Root is a Strat in body only; and at a retail price of $1499.99, one would probably buy it as a homage to Jim Root and not just to acquire a Fender hardtail Strat. The MIM Strats that I've owned seemed like really nice guitars, and I truly believe that there's room for a hardtail at that price point...
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Johan does a good video comparison here of a hardtail vs. a trem Strat. |
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I have 4 Strats. All have floating terms. I've played thousands of gigs with them and I don't have tuning issues. They just need to be set up properly.
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I built a hardtail with my own wood/s . 1 piece cherry body with a Madagascar Rosewood fretboard over a quartersawn walnut neck .
What was the question ? |
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As I understand it , the prototype Strat was a hardtail . Of course , the Strat was conceived to become the platform for the tremolo bridge , which did take place . |
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I have my Strat bridge decked and don't put the bar in very often.
On my Probett, the Mannmade bridge is floating and I use the bar a lot. It stays in tune much better than the Fender bridge.
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Hi Bill - I've never heard of Probett before. Is it a custom builder?
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