Hey everyone!
I'd like to share with you a little trick...actually THREE little tricks I've devised.
1. the unwanted "warble" (when playing with a floating bridge you pick a string which makes the bridge vibrate excessivly....ie same sound as when you roll your "R's" with your tongue)
to stop that without all the time, expense, frustration & routing required for some of the "backstop" or "tremsetter" products out there I simply cut a piece of foam and fit it between the block & body on the spring side. Voila! no more unwanted warble but you can still do the
Steve Vai warble effect by using the whammy bar.
2. speaking of
whammy bars... y'know the Ibanez Edge/Lo-Pro/Edge-Pro whammy bars that have the two white nylon spacers or washers on them? well their purpose is to keep the whammy bar fitting snuggly in it's place. They wear out & the whammy bar gets loose.
Rather than going through the frustration of trying to find where to buy new nylon washers
I simply take a piece of "surrand wrap" (same stuff you use to wrap up a left-over hamburger)
and apply it to nylon washer portion of the whammy bar. voila! the plastic wrap makes up the difference between a brand new washer & a worn out washer.
3. Spring Noise... When using the whammy bar sometimes the springs in the trem cavity will make noise. I use a Weather Stripping (a sort of mix between rubber & foam).
simply cut a piece long enough to cover all your springs, insert the piece between the body & springs & it acts as a dampener.
Note: If done properly, none of the above suggestions should interfere with the normal operation of your trem. These are just things that I"VE found useful on MY guitars.
p.s. if you're into the headstock pickholder ala Steve Vai, I've found that if you insert a piece of weather stripping inside the pick holder, it will hold your picks tighter than the plastic piece alone
