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Interesting! Thanks for the info. Any clue as to where to buy more of those plates? I wanted to experiment someDanley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:18 pmThere’s a thread with info on how specifically to sand/file these - will need to find that, but ‘rounding’ will NOT work. You have to be acute on one side or the other. I forgot which. Warning: though this is basically the only way to fix some of the recent crap MIJ and Squier units short of pivot replacement, it is also REALLY easy to screw it up worse.
If your trem is solid tuningwise but you just want a diff. feel don’t do it. This is really only to be done on a trem that doesn’t stay in tune.
When I ruined one filing it various ways, I posted and asked please very nicely on this forum to get a replacementRoséBear wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:37 pmInteresting! Thanks for the info. Any clue as to where to buy more of those plates? I wanted to experiment someDanley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:18 pmThere’s a thread with info on how specifically to sand/file these - will need to find that, but ‘rounding’ will NOT work. You have to be acute on one side or the other. I forgot which. Warning: though this is basically the only way to fix some of the recent crap MIJ and Squier units short of pivot replacement, it is also REALLY easy to screw it up worse.
If your trem is solid tuningwise but you just want a diff. feel don’t do it. This is really only to be done on a trem that doesn’t stay in tune.
Curious if anyone knows a place to buy separately but I do not (and they aren't all interchangeable between MIJ/Squier/AVRI etc.) I urge you to experiment, but they seem very particular about the pivots being sharp and true, otherwise the whole assembly goes out of whack (I've filed three or four)So I may or may not have tried filing it as I posted these. I’ll post a picture and you can tell me if you think I screwed it up. They’re not round per say, but they’re not as sharp. Am I already screwed haha?Danley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:44 pmWhen I ruined one filing it various ways, I posted and asked please very nicely on this forum to get a replacementRoséBear wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:37 pmInteresting! Thanks for the info. Any clue as to where to buy more of those plates? I wanted to experiment someDanley wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:18 pmThere’s a thread with info on how specifically to sand/file these - will need to find that, but ‘rounding’ will NOT work. You have to be acute on one side or the other. I forgot which. Warning: though this is basically the only way to fix some of the recent crap MIJ and Squier units short of pivot replacement, it is also REALLY easy to screw it up worse.
If your trem is solid tuningwise but you just want a diff. feel don’t do it. This is really only to be done on a trem that doesn’t stay in tune.
Thanks Danley! So how’s the best way to tell? Just put the assembly back together and goof with it? Can you usually tell without having the strings on if it’s not gonna work,