Disengaging a floating tremelo.....

tat2junkie

I recently bought a Squier Jagmaster from Musican's Friend. Im really enjoying this guitar, I had stopped playing when I got with my son's mom basicaly because of musical indiffrence. But this think has got me playing like the old days. I have 1 problem with this guitar its a recurring problem I have with every non-locking tremelo Ive every owned. I seem to play it to hard and when I get palm muteing I have a tendecy to kinda smack the guitar with my hand. I beleive that is my main problem. When I smack the bridge area a few times I seem to always knock one or two strings out of tune. Recently I staggered upon a few articles online about locking these type of tremelos out but that was before I got this guitar and like a big dummy I failed to book mark them. So can anyone guide me? I wanna lock this baby out.

antoha

You gotta put a block of wood into the cavity, and make sure the bridge is flat on the body. Its gonna increase the sustain as well.

Fran

Thats the best way. Other than that, slacken the strings, remove the backplate, then tighten the two screws (on the metal plate) in the cavity so that the springs are stretched tight. Dont fully tighten, just enough so that the trem goes flat to the body and it is physically difficult to move it.