Re: 1965 Hagstrom III: Swedish offset
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 11:39 pm
You're right; the nut is indeed in very bad shape.
Whenever I start playing that guitar on a more regular base, I'll look into it...
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You're right; the nut is indeed in very bad shape.
Sounds like you just have the spring too tight. If you loosen the tension screw you should be able to make the trem floating. It will never be as smooth as an offset typ trem of course, but definitely usable, as long as you solder the ends of your high E-strings.gringopig wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2019 11:45 pmThe trem is not like how you would want though. It has no up movement and takes quite a bit of force to move so it's quite mechanical sounding. Not fluid. You can get good Kurt Vile style down plunges thankfully. It also seems to unravel my high e so reluctant to use it a lot so I need to get a soldering iron.