Inertia block for Jaguar vibrato?
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:45 pm
Someone (can't remember who, sorry) commented on here a while back about crafting a brass "inertia block" to be attached onto the string plate of a JM/Jag vibrato. Apparently the result was a bit of an increase in sustain, but also in resonance, both behind the bridge and in the "normal" string section.
In theory this seems like it would be a way to get more of the JM/Jag tone. Since more mass is added to the bridge construction, which remains floating, it seems like you wouldn't really have more string vibrations going into the body, but rather remaining in the strings themselves, without changing the fundamental setup which produces the sound, overtones at all. Is it possible, then, that you could get more volume and sustain without losing attack and tone characteristics?
Has anyone tried this out enough to offer some feedback on how it works and how you would go about crafting one? Or does anyone know enough physics and string theory to tell me why it wouldn't work like this in practice at all?
In theory this seems like it would be a way to get more of the JM/Jag tone. Since more mass is added to the bridge construction, which remains floating, it seems like you wouldn't really have more string vibrations going into the body, but rather remaining in the strings themselves, without changing the fundamental setup which produces the sound, overtones at all. Is it possible, then, that you could get more volume and sustain without losing attack and tone characteristics?
Has anyone tried this out enough to offer some feedback on how it works and how you would go about crafting one? Or does anyone know enough physics and string theory to tell me why it wouldn't work like this in practice at all?