memberzonly Posted September 6, 2009 Posted September 6, 2009 Anyone selling a USA made Vector with a trem? Prefer early 80's. Floyd or Hamer sustain trem a plus.
zorrow Posted September 6, 2009 Posted September 6, 2009 Just a comment: the sustainblock trem works great as a bridge, but it sucks as a tremolo system, really.If you want a trem, very probably it's because you'll use it, so you better go with a Floyd... or a Kahler.Good luck!
RoyB Posted September 6, 2009 Posted September 6, 2009 Just a comment: the sustainblock trem works great as a bridge, but it sucks as a tremolo system, really.If you want a trem, very probably it's because you'll use it, so you better go with a Floyd... or a Kahler.Good luck!Ya know I don't get that at all. My Phantom had a sustain block trem and you could not knock it out of tune. I loved it.
zorrow Posted September 7, 2009 Posted September 7, 2009 Just a comment: the sustainblock trem works great as a bridge, but it sucks as a tremolo system, really. If you want a trem, very probably it's because you'll use it, so you better go with a Floyd... or a Kahler. Good luck! Ya know I don't get that at all. My Phantom had a sustain block trem and you could not knock it out of tune. I loved it. Well, maybe I just tried to abuse of the sustainblock trem in my Vector 84 and it didn't take it. I ended blocking it with a little piece of wood.
Lockbody Posted September 7, 2009 Posted September 7, 2009 Just a comment: the sustainblock trem works great as a bridge, but it sucks as a tremolo system, really. If you want a trem, very probably it's because you'll use it, so you better go with a Floyd... or a Kahler. Good luck! Ya know I don't get that at all. My Phantom had a sustain block trem and you could not knock it out of tune. I loved it. Well, maybe I just tried to abuse of the sustainblock trem in my Vector 84 and it didn't take it. I ended blocking it with a little piece of wood. There was a post once many moons ago from Serial (or Not Steve, I don't remember), about how he had never met a sustain block trem that wouldn't go out of tune just from looking at it too hard, and that they were true tone suckers. Hyperbole, to be sure, but that comment has kept me from ever wanting to ty anything with one. And now some pr0n to whet the OP's appetite I don't know how many are out there with Floyds. There can't be too many. Mostly S.B. trems and Kahlers.
zorrow Posted September 7, 2009 Posted September 7, 2009 Well, I can say sb trems AREN'T tone suckers.
David B Posted September 7, 2009 Posted September 7, 2009 My first Hamer was a 1983 Blitz with SB trem. It's the only one I had with a SB trem that stayed in tune very well. That may have been because I played it so much.
Russ Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 My '84 has the SB, and it isn't that bad in normal use. If you're gonna go all Eddie Van Halen on it, I wouldlook elsewhere. But, no, I ain't selling it (unless you throw gobs and gobs of cash at me, but, I would bevery unrealistic in what I would "accept" for it).
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