Can I Convert A Tremolo Into A Fixed Bridge?

[@sixstringtv1]

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[@nine9whitepony526]

Great video man. Gonna be honest here. I just received some devastating news yesterday and I also discovered your channel yesterday. I love guitars and you have a similar sense of humor to myself, so binge watching your videos have really helped me out in keeping my spirits up. Thank you.

[@sixstringtv1]

Hey man, I'm glad to hear my videos are helping you through a tough time. I've definitely seen a whole lot of your comments the past few hours and that's super cool! I hope you feel better soon 🙏🙏

[@Merjia]

I love that this is still kind of a hacked job, that guitar is so punk, I love it.

[@sixstringtv1]

Absolutely fucked up guitar. I adore it

[@Livelaughlimpbizkit]

I just got my first hardtail strat, I do love and prefer a trem on a strat but it's cool none the less (incredible sustain too!)

[@TonyCastillo666]

The air blowing his hair 😂

[@djombock]

I was like wow!! This guy has laser money! Then you said they gave it to you🤣

[@sixstringtv1]

The perks of this job

[@djombock]

@@sixstringtv1 that’s pretty cool that you can do stuff like that. I build guitars in my spare time.

[@markpell8979]

@@djombock Jom, he's paying for it in a way. It's called 'promotional consideration' in the business world. Kaylen gets a laser and X-TOOL believe they will be more than compensated through sales and exposure.

[@djombock]

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[@markpell8979]

@@djombock No worries, Jom. Sarcasm is my middle name. I was explaining for the others.

[@coffeman3575]

You should put a pickguard on that thing

[@bartenderofhell]

Killer video! just what i was looking for

[@alexdenton6586]

God, I love my strat but I hate the tremolo I dream of a hardtail on my Stratocaster.

[@Project_2501]

Here is how I converted my trem on my PRS Custom 24 to fixed bridge: Got two additional springs with heavier tension that pull back the trem until the overlap sits tight on the body (put something inbetween the trem an the body or you might damage the finish). I additionally screwd in the anchor of the springs further into the body, which increases the tension even more. Done. Very easy and effective. You will have to adjust intonation however because the saddles will be out of place right after you did that. And here is another reminder, if you own an original PRS and you're in financial trouble and tempted to sell you PRS - DON'T! You will always regret it! Happened to me and my Custom 24 (25th Anniversary Edition from 2009), I sold it at one point for half the retail price (which was $3.600 new and I got 1.700 for it) and I regret this decision to this day! In hindsight I know I could have solved my financial troubles in different ways.

[@Project_2501]

@sixstringtv1 Sorry, I weirdly can't see you reply. I can only read the first line in the notifications, but when I click it, It won't display it. Maybe you can repost it? Thank you!

[@victorvillafane3241]

Did this myself and swapped my stock 3 for 5 vintage tremolo springs. (Strat Performer)

[@joshmiller2446]

Man, I haven't even watched the vid yet but I've done this on many guitars... firstly, get it set up the way YOU like, then cut a piece of treated wood (i.e, something that isn't total garbage) and knock that sucker into place behind the bottom of the saddle with or without some glue, BAM! Gotcha a hard tail with (possibly) better resonance and tuning.☺️

[@trialbyicecream]

I’m totally trying this. Watching your video when it came out was part of the inspiration that I can figure this out. Watching it again right now is just getting me excited for when I have the time to do it.

[@sixstringtv1]

If you actually do, don't forget to ground the new bridge. I did.

[@Combustion47]

Great video , class 🤘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@sal1ne-]

that last guitar riff you played really reminds me of this doom metal band called 'beastwars' just curious if you've heard of them and keep up the good work dude! i love these guitar restoration vids

[@JoeCarroll-f1o]

What kind of ht bridge? Thanks

[@cosmicbilly]

I tried making my strat have a floating bridge. I love using tremolo bars while jamming. But it goes out of tune and its frustrating, especially if i want to play shows with my buddys band. I dont like having to tune every time i bend a string. I even have nice locking tuners but they don't do much with the bridge floating.

[@outermarker5801]

Great job, turned out nicely! I'm assuming you didn't just block the original because you just hated how it looks? I just bought a Strat copy with a decent trem. But since I have no use for the system I just decked and blocked it with a sized piece of wood in the cavity. Instant 'hardtail'.

[@andreabisozzi2520]

Hello......what did you put on the nut of the neck?

[@MashaT22]

Glad you swaped for a hard tail in this case. Came out great! That’s a really cool laser cutter. (Ty for sponsoring SixStringTV, MakeBlock/XTool!) Now you need a 3D scanner to help you measure future projects that require scanning cavities or reproducing stuff . . . go seek the next sponsor, K! 😉 👍🏻

[@sixstringtv1]

Oh god 🤣🤣

[@stevebubar6129]

U have multiple skills for days! So jealous! Guitar looks n sounds great

[@sixstringtv1]

😎

[@RoiDatBoi]

Nice work man! That was cool

[@sixstringtv1]

😎🙏🙏

[@stewarttomkinson3356]

OK, I’m not seeing where the strings go through the bridge

[@Jerich0ne]

Why not just locking the trem, was it that bad you had to change it completely?

[@sixstringtv1]

Yes. It wouldn't eveb stay in the cavity even with extra high tension springs. Awful

[@StoneBuzzard]

@sixstringtv Maybe a tremol-no would have worked, but when a company gives you a laser cutter it's best to just go with the flow

[@sixstringtv1]

I don't think so. I tried it with a Göldo back box and that did nothing. The top portion wouldn't stay balanced because of that dumbass mechanism they used. You can't understand unless you've seen it in person 🤣

[@Jerich0ne]

@@sixstringtv1 Hm, was thinking about putting a block of wood between the body and the trem block. Wouldn't work either?

[@GregStraub42]

"This prop isn't fun anymore" light it on fire. >_>

[@AleArzMusic]

I once blocked the tremolo JUGAAD style using literally 10 coins of 1cent each, stacked and piled together and put between the bridgeblock and the cavify

[@sixstringtv1]

Same thing I did on another guitar 🤣

[@sachielhuitron3545]

What Shampoo you use?

[@IsaacChenkual]

Was gonna asked the same😂

[@Shooter_FPV]

I have a 1988 Epiphone Strat with a Steinberger K-Trem (yea, they SUCK!). The posts on the bridge are bent beyond repair, so I think I'll do this to it.

[@austindurham5736]

Can you do the opposite? Turn hardtail into tremolo?

[@sixstringtv1]

Drilling a hole is usually easier than filling one back up with wood

[@imwastedhere]

I always wanted to do this

[@sissiroxie]

how did you manage to keep the guitar grounded?

[@sixstringtv1]

I didn't. Woops. Better fix that ig

[@Moremetal..]

As a cabinetmaker/carpenter/amateur guitar builder i'm cringing watching you use a laser cutter and little thin peices of wood to fill the cavity, hope it worked ok but you should of routered out the cavity square and put in a solid piece or couple thicker pieces or maple (cut with a saw....lol) the thickness of the body.....just sayin.

[@DeathMetalDerf]

It looks great, and that laser cutter is pretty sweet!

[@JoshNotJohn0]

Why did you keep the locking nut after the strings? You lost the fine tuning capabilities of the other bridge so it doesn't really make sense to me to have a locking nut. it's not even like a gibson headstock where it arguably fixes the string angle, i'm.. really confused ngl.

[@sixstringtv1]

1) It's look raw and awful underneath that locking nut if I took it off 2) The tuning pegs I bought are cheap and horrible

[@joenicastro482]

🤯🤯Gosh, between you and KDH just feeling free to cut strings under tension!? CHEERS 🍻

[@sixstringtv1]

there was almost no tension left lmao, but he's right. Doing that won't do shit

[@bruno_gatti]

I really don’t understand that - just why do people cut the strings? Why is that even a thing, you have to deal with double the amount of pieces of metal to throw away, isn’t it just easier to unwind them and pull them out?

[@sixstringtv1]

Theyre all fucking bent, puling them out through the bridge is a pain in the ass.

[@ego_friend]

wow that is far out . amazing work

[@calvinlee8103]

Is that a GFS bridge?

[@George_K.]

Geez what a hackjob... If you like the guitar as much as you previously said you do, maybe at least get some descent pickups. I think it goes without saying you could've done a much better job "filling" the cavity and mounting the bridge, but I guess the effort wasn't worth the YT clicks and you don't like the guitar enough to put the time and effort for this. Also you might wanna check how/if the electronics are still grounded somehow gutting the whole tremolo system.

[@sixstringtv1]

I don't like the guitar and I never said I did lmao

[@shizamikaze]

it would cool to see it done with normal tools not everyone has a laser lying down in their garage

[@larsdahl6594]

OR... you could load up on springs and bottom out the claw. Ten-minute job.

[@sixstringtv1]

Doesn't change that the bridge was a travesty

[@Bobby_Uterus]

My favorite part was the windy hair

[@tntisbased]

One and a half grand. Either laser cutters are fucking expensive or you need an expensive cutter for the best toan or something

[@sixstringtv1]

Lasers are expensive. This is the absolute best in its class though.

[@mikedamisch]

That's so ghetto, no idea why you didn't glue it all with a big piece of wood filling out the rear pocket. Love it though, I've done it on a strat myself.

[@sixstringtv1]

Cause ghetto is the way we do things around here. And I hate glue

[@mikedamisch]

@@sixstringtv1 I can respect that 🤷😂.

[@iansavage2382]

Thats cool.

[@JoshNotJohn0]

I misinterpreted the video title and thumbnail and thought "so... are you just gonna remove the whammy slot with a saw or smn?"

[@sixstringtv1]

🤣🤣🤣

[@1FeistyKitty]

hand tools in half .25 the time and no thinking .... and fill everything with solide wood

[@todds5956]

You could have just filled the cavity with epoxy.

[@CedricsSpecialLP]

This was a very cool video. However, I thought that during your demo, the guitar tone sounded A BIT awful. It’s hard to explain this in words but during the second half of the demo, the tone sounds like farting. But that’s just my opinion.

[@djgraish]

Advert was way too long and tedious, sorry

[@FilthyPhilify]

why would you use a laser cutter for a job a saw would easily handle in a fraction of the time? kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXi5pH1rg9ijhc0 ah, that's why :D

[@sixstringtv1]

I approached them because it was my idea to use a laser cutter for this. I just wanted the accuracy I couldn't achieve by hand, plus this isn't the only thing I intend to use it for

[@FilthyPhilify]

@@sixstringtv1 that flame detection tho!

[@Fuelman-yz8ii]

Hey what’s up

[@sixstringtv1]

Sup man

[@frankovPaladin]

this video is so bad, 0.