Despite being semi-butchered & brought back to life, this guitar never failed to inspire me in terms of riffing ideas. It's modded to be a simple tool; one pickup, one volume - go!
The latest internal surgery involves the installation of this little ditty; the Tremsetter (1). The industry also refers to it as Tremolo Stabilizer & Arming Adjuster, among others. The idea here is to set it up so that the whammy bridge returns to your preferred position. As such, it is functionally different from the Tremol-No where whammy applications are totally frozen; the bridge stops moving altogether.
However, being me & having this guitar assigned for no whammy applications, I've decided to screw in the springs entirely as well (2). This effectively means, the bridge is a non-mover. This only works if you use a higher tension set of whammy springs. The absolute advantage - I no longer require the Edge bridge to be wedged during string change, it is now a fixed bridge. What's the point of buying a dual action whammy bridge only to stop it from being one? The point is that I have other guitars with a perfectly functional dual action whammy bridge for whammy applications. Since this one is a 'spare' of sorts, I don't mind it being different from its counterparts.
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