The colar that the tremolo arm slides in to on my Bass VI has fallen inside the body... I've seen the same problem on Jaguars but google is bringing up nothing :-/ is this fixable?
It's a 90's re-issue, and the problem occurred mid-whammy.
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Joined: Nov 21, 2011 Posts: 2 |
The colar that the tremolo arm slides in to on my Bass VI has fallen inside the body... I've seen the same problem on Jaguars but google is bringing up nothing :-/ is this fixable? It's a 90's re-issue, and the problem occurred mid-whammy. |
Joined: Mar 07, 2010 Posts: 2226 North Carolina |
Assuming if you pull the bar way up, the collar re-appears through the plate, one possible explanation is the trem spring broke or got stretched enough to fall off/past the base of the screw assembly. Fix: new spring or try to reshape the one you've got.
If there's no sight of the collar even when you pull the bar way up and it's rattling loose in the cavity... that's obviously an entirely different problem. —Fady El Mirage @ ReverbNation |
Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 2813 Fredericksburg, Virginia |
When I bought my MIJ Jazzmaster about 20 years ago, the guy told me that the trem didn't work and "something 'sounded loose' in there." I bought the guitar anyway and I unscrewed the trem system and found that the collar had unscrewed from the plate. So, I screwed it back on, re-fit the tremelo system and not a single problem for 20 years and counting. Matt "tha Kat" Lentz |
Joined: Nov 21, 2011 Posts: 2 |
Hey, thanks Matt22... needed the VI (sans whammy) for some christmas shows so only got the chance to look today. Here's a few pics of the repair for anybody else with the same problem. |
Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 2813 Fredericksburg, Virginia |
Awesome! Matt "tha Kat" Lentz |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle |
Dibs on all of your Bass VIs when you all die. |
Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 2813 Fredericksburg, Virginia |
JakeDobner wrote:
It's such a cool instrument, isn't it? Fender Japan is supposed to do a new run of them this coming year! —Matt "tha Kat" Lentz |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle |
Yeah, I'm really hoping they are reasonably priced. |
Joined: Feb 15, 2007 Posts: 2813 Fredericksburg, Virginia |
I hope they have more sense than their parent company and don't hike their prices. Matt "tha Kat" Lentz |