Discussion of newer designs, copies and reissue offset-waist instruments.
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601210
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by 601210 » Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:06 am
MayTheFuzzBeWithYou wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 3:40 am
So this one is to you, owners:
How do you like the Tune-o-matic in it? Compared to a Mastery/Staytrem in your other guitars?
Thank you
I ended up getting a Staytrem, but I didn't really mind the Tune-o-matic. I've heard some complaints about the mismatched radius but it wasn't really a deal breaker, if I held each one at a time I could sorta tell that one was different, but maybe I'm just not as sensitive to it. Tuning was never a problem, even with trem use.
The Staytrem is an improvement in that the "correct" radius is marginally better, the trem action is marginally better, and it feels better under the hand (smoother saddles), but I could have stuck with the Tune-o-matic and have been completely happy with it.
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by MayTheFuzzBeWithYou » Mon Jan 21, 2019 4:26 pm
Thank you!
I mean it's surely there for a reason. To not complicate things too much (drilling/getting another Staytrem) I'd probably either stick with it or get a Roller Bridge for it. Got one on my Eastwood Sidejack - which is my main backup right now - and couldn't complain.
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by 601210 » Mon Jan 21, 2019 6:11 pm
In this case I think the reason was that they didn't have staytrems or masteries in the 70s/80s, so it was either mustang bridges or TOMs. J Mascis bought his first jazzmaster used with a TOM already installed so that's just what he used ever since. But TOMs were a common enough mod that even classic player JM/jags, which were one of the first modified JMs and Jags that I can think of, had them.
I'd say it's more than adequate but that's just my opinion.
