[Kevan]

Hey folks! I have some great news for everyone:

THE TREMOL-NO HAS BEEN LICENSED!!!

More info can be found here:
http://www.tremol-no.com/license.htm

Like the site says, don't hammer AllParts for units yet. Give them a few weeks to get them built and shipped to their door. Building 100 is pretty quick; building 10,000 takes a *little* more time. Let's hope for deliveries to start happening somewhere around Summer NAMM (a total guess, but...should be close to then).

Price: MSRP will be somewhere between $50 and $60, which includes the Deep-C.

The Tremol-No Classic will be the first model built. If all goes well, we will follow up with the Tremol-No Standard for all the Ibanez guys.

I would like to thank a few people, if you guys don't mind....

First off, Rachel. For sticking with me, not minding that I stay up for days at a time, down in the shop, running the milling machine all damn night while she's sleeping. I wish everyone could have a girl like her in their life. She really is fantastic. I'm one lucky SOB.

I have to thank my parents. They were super-supportive of this whole project (once I explained exactly what a tremolo system did. LOL). They're just plain awesome.

My patent attorney, Sean Casey. That guy doesn't own a guitar, but man....he rocks harder than Peter North in a Victoria's Secret store.

Next off, all the guitar people-
The entire AllParts company, Lisa Sharken, Steve Blucher, Jim Donahue, all the folks at Ibanez and the LACS, the guys at Fernades Co. Japan, the uber-techs at Ernie Ball/Music Man, Jol Dantzig, my buddies at Peavey, John Suhr, Nik Huber and 'Vegas Greg', every single one of the players on the Players page, and those who aren't up there (you know who you are), Larry Davis and his crew, Vince Cunetto, and last (but not least), Joe Satriani for calling my house right before I was about to put the first fork full of dinner to my mouth.

And my online buddies-
-Project Guitar forum members
-The Gear Page forum members (and admin!!!)
-The Vai.com forum (and admin!!!)
-The Memphis Monster and the Shawn Lane forums (all versions)
-The *real* Allan Holdsworth forum
-The Nik Huber board (and admin!!!)
-Sevenstring.org forum members (and admin!!!)
Some are goofballs, some are psychos, all of them better players than me, but I'm proud to be able to call them the folks I hang out with online.

If I left anyone out, please forgive me. It's been a 2.5 year process, and some of the names probably just escape me right now.

And thanks to everyone that's ever emailed me about the Tremol-No. You guys have sent me the coolest emails, and some of the most bizarre requests. All of them have been awesome.

Thanks again to everyone. I'll update the site as soon as AllParts has units ready to ship out.

Rock on!

[Toshiro]

Congrats dude!! Now I need money... lol

[Regor]

That's great news. I'll definately be looking into them when they're available.

The next question is, will AllParts sell back plates which allow access to the units?

[Metal Ken]

gonna order 2, straight up !

[ajdehoogh]

KICKASSS! Time to order.

[Chris]

Great news bro - Congrats!

[Kevan]

Originally Posted by Regor

The next question is, will AllParts sell back plates which allow access to the units?

Great question, man!

I'm not sure how the backplate thing is going to work. I don't know if you guys know this, but not all guitars are created equal. LOL Your basic Strat has about 8 different screw hole patterns and a bunch of different sizes/widths/thicknesses and mounting styles (flat, countersunk,etc.). So, for Strats, there's about a dozen, not including color or ply options. Move on to SuperStrats, you've got at least another 5, then tack on the 7-string versions....
You get the idea.

For now, I'll continue to draw up templates and put them in the Support section of the site whenever I get the numbers on a new plate (or one in my hands). The templates will be basic guidelines for whomever cuts the plates out. I have the EB/MM JPM plate done, but not uploaded yet. It'll go up soon.

We'll continue to work on the backplate situation. I'll post here if we come up with anything.

P.S.- Do you know how f-ing hard it was drawing out that PRS plate? DAYMN! No right angles on the thing, anywhere! *Someone* did A LOT of acid in college to come up with that one....

[The Dark Wolf]

This is good news. Congrats, Kev.
Any word on Deep C (the one I'm really interested in)?

Originally Posted by Kevan

he rocks harder than Peter North in a Victoria's Secret store.

[Kevan]

Originally Posted by The Dark Wolf

Any word on Deep C (the one I'm really interested in)?

Originally Posted by Kevan

Price: MSRP will be somewhere between $50 and $60, which includes the Deep-C.

A Tremol-No Classic with the Deep-C on a 2027? 7 strings...mahogany...stop it.

[The Dark Wolf]

$50-60, not bad! Less than a pickup. Ah, shanks Kev. In my enthusiasm for this post, I overlooked that.

Originally Posted by Kevan

A Tremol-No Classic with the Deep-C on a 2027? 7 strings...mahogany...stop it.

And that's JUST what I'd like, my friend!

Of course, you and Drew now own the market on mahogany 7-string Tremol-No tone, you bastards. (Need I say, RG7-CST. I can't BELIEVE Drew got one before me. He hated the 2027!)

I guess I'll just have to content myself with my RG2027, WITH custom Air Norton 7 and custom JB-7.