{"id":5427,"date":"2010-04-13T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T00:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2010-04-17T09:17:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T13:17:02","slug":"no-drill-tremolo-arm-options-for-an-american-standard-fender-telecaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/no-drill-tremolo-arm-options-for-an-american-standard-fender-telecaster\/","title":{"rendered":"No-drill tremolo arm options for an American Standard Fender Telecaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a hankering for some surf twang from my Tele. As it&#8217;s quite a nice guitar, I&#8217;d prefer not to drill it. After not much luck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdpri.com\/forum\/tele-tech\/208032-bigsby-recent-american-standard.html\">asking on tdpri.com<\/a>, I had to do some digging myself.<\/p>\n<p>There are a bunch of options for Vintage-style telecaster bridges. Those are the ones with the familiar &#8220;ashtray&#8221; bridge, three saddles for a bridge and four screws securing them to the body. One of these is the <a title=\"Vibramate - Innovative Vibrato Hardware - Made in USA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vibramate.com\/vibramate-v5te-install.html\">Vibramate<\/a>; their V5-TEAS for the Standard is coming out later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>But the Standard bridge is different; it has six blocks, three screws, and is a different length from the Vintage bridge:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG00137-20100410-1221s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5428\" title=\"Fender American Standard Telecaster bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG00137-20100410-1221s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG00137-20100410-1221s.jpg 640w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG00137-20100410-1221s-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG00137-20100410-1221s-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Options for these are fewer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ZZGuitarworks <a title=\"Patented EZ-Mount system to quickly &amp; easily mount bigsby vibratos with NO MODIFICATIONS to your guitar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zzguitarworks.com\/servlet\/the-99\/guitar-bigsby-vibrato-tremolo\/Detail\">Bigsby EZ-Mount System W\/B3R Bridge<\/a> looks promising. (The B3R is for right-handed Standards; B3L for lefty Standards. Similarly, B4R is for Vintage 4-screw ashtrays.)<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"desc\" href=\"http:\/\/stetsbar.com\/t.style.html\">Stetsbar<\/a> fits both Standard and Vintage. It does require neck shimming, though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a hankering for some surf twang from my Tele. As it&#8217;s quite a nice guitar, I&#8217;d prefer not to drill it. After not much luck asking on tdpri.com, I had to do some digging myself. There are a bunch of options for Vintage-style telecaster bridges. Those are the ones with the familiar &#8220;ashtray&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[2134,1075,2903,1266,2133],"class_list":["post-5427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guitar","tag-bigsby","tag-fender","tag-guitar","tag-telecaster","tag-tremolo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1px","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5447,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions\/5447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}