Steinberger Tremolo Explained

[@ferncottageardentinny]

You CAN get posts. A guy called Bernd Meissner makes re-enforced posts as they have a tendency to collapse/bend fwd if people try excessive dives. Other route is to buy a cheap Overlord of Music copy bridge from eBay for about £27 and Rob the posts from that. Properly balanced these are perfectly good for gentle shimmers but not Floyd rose dive bomb machines.

[@TestarossaRocks]

Paisley Weaving Company right on!

[@didpip]

@@TestarossaRocks I have Bernd's stainless steel posts installed on a Epi Firebird with the KB Bridge. It's actually a very cool bridge once you replace the awful pot metal posts. On of the coolest things about it is I have the tension adjusted so when unlocked it's tuned a half step down! Kind of a "poor man's" transtrem!

[@TestarossaRocks]

Pip Pipkins that’s cool. Didn’t know that.

[@pablitoclavoclavito]

Hola. Favor podrias indicar cual es la forma correcta de mover los carros para la calibración? Gracias.

[@chuckbowie5833]

Beautiful video. Thanks for the info!

[@TestarossaRocks]

Carl Newhouse yessir!

[@Be_eM]

There have been some references to the upgraded steel posts and other information for using and fixing a Steinberger KB tremolo, here is the direct link to the source: www.headless-europe.eu/Bernds_Guitar_Pages/Steinberger_KB_Trem.html

[@chris407x]

Thank you so much: I have been trying to figure out how mine worked for about 20 years! Mine is missing the levers. It is locked in place, I will probably leave it there.

[@TestarossaRocks]

Chris Adams glad I could help! It’s best to leave it locked imo.

[@josschmitz9400]

This is the German guy who makes the perfect replacement studs. www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/13798790/the-steinberger-kb-tremolo-meissner-dokuteam

[@ianfurqueron5850]

Wow.. I remember these when they were new - well - sort of - they weren't very popular even then. Haven't seen or thought about it in years until I spotted one on Reverb and started Googling to refresh my memory. Much like factory installed Kahlers, Bigsby's before that or even Floyd fitted versions today, a trem on a Les Paul has never been very popular. My own main Les Paul is an '84 Studio with a factory Kahler - mainly because I was a huge Def Leppard/Steve Clark fan back in the 80's. Then I spent much of the 90's trying different things to get the Kahler to stay in tune better, eventually settling on locking tuners in lieu of a string lock.

[@TestarossaRocks]

Ian Furqueron personally I dig a Floyd on a Les Paul. I wish Gib$on would do an affordable Les Paul standard with a Floyd.

[@ianfurqueron5850]

There was an Epiphone version of the Axcess called the Pro/FX but it wasn't popular either. Examples on reverb seem to have asking prices about what they were new.

[@TestarossaRocks]

Ian Furqueron there’s literally no reason Gibson can’t make one in the 1500-2000 dollar range other than people will pay 4000-6000 dollars for one. It’s absurd.

[@robertscott3399]

i brought home an 88 S-900 it belongs to my friend he owns Zimm's Guitars in mesa Az we were taliking about doing what your doing just hard tail it. but what i ended up doing is used floyd rose tremolo pivit insrerts and the bushings cut down a bit drill 2 holes in the body for the studs directly under the base p[-late wer the original posts were at i ground off the threaded lip that was bent to crap an drilled it out so i could screw the inserts in the bushing once they were in the body it all worked out and the trem arm just slips into the hole there is a set scew to tighten it up so any trem arm that is the same dia will work on that treolo

[@TestarossaRocks]

Nice

[@robertscott3399]

@@TestarossaRocks I figured I made twice as good as it was. Lol with adding the Floyd studs 😂 and word than a kahler wow I didn't know there was such a thing . Well the wonder bar and all that other crappy tremolos out there 😂😂😂

[@ReaveShot]

My lock switch that holds the bridge down keeps letting it pop up, am I missing something? Like, I lock it, but then boom, bridge pops up bc it slips off the lock.

[@TestarossaRocks]

It’s most likely just worn out

[@sergionano1]

Any thoughts on how to keep the lock from popping back when I bend strings or use the whammy bar? Don't know if it's defective or not adjusted correctly.

[@TestarossaRocks]

Unfortunately my time and experience with this system is very limited. They aren’t very well executed systems though. Good idea, needs work

[@carlucci63]

I'm wondering what I can just replace the thing with. Anybody know what will fit??

[@TestarossaRocks]

@@carlucci63 that I don’t know. Best option would be to fill it, put a wrap around tailpiece and repaint it.

[@Tjam1]

An uncle gave me one of these epiphones today and i was lookin for a video to see how it works . For how much you think i could sell it ?? Its in good condition

[@TestarossaRocks]

antonis stamatoukos not sure check on reverb.

[@Tjam1]

@@TestarossaRocks thanks, very good explanation on how it works btw!!

[@TestarossaRocks]

antonis stamatoukos no problem. Thank you! 🤙🤙

[@tolerbearALTII]

Is there a way to remove the plate behind the spring?

[@TestarossaRocks]

Allen Toler I’m sure there is but I no longer have the guitar so I couldn’t tell you how.

[@robertscott3399]

there is a little set screw allen head on the cog somewhere inbetween two of the gears and the whole spring assemblky comes off.

[@warzsawa80]

How much is the diameter of the tremolo bar? Many thanks

[@TestarossaRocks]

No idea. Guitar is long gone

[@josschmitz9400]

Video stops at 1.39 sec! I have the dame oddball Epi with the Steinberger. Can you lease upload the video again? Thnx a lot!

[@TestarossaRocks]

Jos Schmitz video plays all the way for me? Maybe try restarting your browser.

[@TestarossaRocks]

Michael C this guitar was at a pawnshop in Denver Nc

[@TestarossaRocks]

Michael C this the original finish. They did a brief run of these. The body was definitely original. They weren’t very common but they did exist

[@didpip]

@Michael C I owned a single humbucker version of this guy in the eighties and it had the same white pearly finish. Yup, it's fact-tree.

[@leftiequixote]

Anybody recommend a good straight up replacement for a guitar with one of these?

[@andymartin813]

The Kahler is far superior

[@andymartin813]

Just saw an Epiphone X-1000 with a KB for $600 CAN.

[@TestarossaRocks]

Sheesh. Seems a little high.

[@andymartin813]

@@TestarossaRocks they only gave me a 7% offer and I’m like no thanks lol

[@josschmitz9400]

Hello TestarossaRocks. Video still stops at 1.35. But when I stream it to my tv, it plays in full. Thanks for the video. Parts for the KB trem are hard to get. But I found a webpage with PDF's explaining the problems with the KB and where you can order improved parts that solve the problem. Very usefull. www.headless-europe.eu/Bernds_Guitar_Pages/The_Steinberger_KB_Trem.html