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Old 04-01-2008, 11:07 AM   #7
Drew
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That's absolutely fucking badass. That looked more like a cartoon than a sword - the "folding," I guess, on that blade is absolutely gorgeous.

The Schaller doesn't have a Wilkinson-like mechanism by chance, does it, where the tension is controlled by an allen key and not the thumbscrew?



I wonder if you could put a Wilkinson arm holder on a Floyd...

http://www.drewpeterson.org/new stuff/test_fit.jpg

(deleted the image tgs because the picture kept reloading every second for me...)

Not the greatest pic, but the thing screws in a la a normal strat trem (though, it's threaded on the inside, so it screws into a shaft - the outside is smooth), and then you control the amount of "tightness" of the bridge with an allen key pushing up against a rubber o ring inside the arm holder. It's the best design I've ever played, it functions exactly like a LoPro with fresh bushings or an OFR before the holder unscrews, but it never loosens. True, you sort of need (well, you don't need to, but it makes it a lot easier and it probably saves wear on the o-ring) the allen wrench to take the bar off, so if you're throwing the guitar in and out of a case a lot it sort of sucks, but while you're actually playing it flat out owns.

"...and everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon."
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