A woman is giving birth. She pushes and pushes and finally the baby pops free. The doctor holds the baby up by its feet and declares, “it’s a handsome baby boy!”
He then punches it in the head, throws it against the wall and runs over and jumps on it with both feet.
The horrified mother screams, “my baby! You’re killing my baby!”
To which the doctor replies, “I’m just fucking with you. It was already dead.”
Time to build a Telecaster! I’m taking my time on this one.
Here are some photos of the body. It is sprayed with yellow lacquer and I LOVE the look of it. This sucker is gonna get a maple neck with a strat shaped headstock, a humbucker in the bridge, and all black hardware.
Look at the cool wood grain and knots!The back looks cool too!Lots of knots around the output jack hole
The Vangaurd has a double locking Floyd Rose tremolo system. I have the bridge set up fully floating so you can both lower and raise the pitch. The neck has a locking nut and the strings are anchored straight to the saddles. It makes a very stable system that can stay in tune even with silly dove bombs.
There are downsides to a fully floating system though
One string can pull the others out of tune (double stop bends are sad)
Tuning is difficult because the strings are balanced against spring force
Changing tuning is tedious and multi-step process
There are various ways to fix the issues above, but most of them take all the fun out of having a Floyd Rose. I decided to install a Tremol-No system. Using a couple thumb screws, you can change the guitar to fully floating, dive only (only lower the pitch), or fixed bridge. It’s easy enough to do it between songs while standing up. There is no drilling or soldering required, and no permanent modifications
Mark the old claw position, detune, remove springsAll installed!
It takes about an hour to install and only requires basic tools.
It works really good! Changing it to “dive only” let’s me change to Drop D or E flat real quick which is the biggest selling point for me.
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