Someone Kiestered Something In My (a)SS!!!

[FrettyMcgee]

I'm a notorious tinkerer. So imagine my surprise when I realized that I hadn't poked around in my SS's control cavity in the 5 odd years I've had it. This was compounded when I popped of the cavity cover and found some foreign objects!

First I thought, "Shielding?". Naaa...foam padding ineffective.

Then, "Oooh something's taped up too....a stash?". Damnit, no....too solid and heavy.

Then, "Wrapped battery pack?" Nope. No added active electronics.

So the next obvious choice had to be......

                                                                         ...........a Kahler tremolo cam.

 

 

[cmatthes]

Well sure!  What else could it have been?

[HAMERMAN]

My best guess is it was meant as a counterweight to help with a small case of neck dive.

[kizanski]

??? Huh?  What for??

[scottcald]

Well, sure, the extra mass increased the sustain of that guitar immensely.  It's going be awful now.  You'll have to sell it.  

[FrettyMcgee]

1 hour ago, HAMERMAN said:

My best guess is it was meant as a counterweight to help with a small case of neck dive.

That would be my guess too. But man, a Kahler cam would be near the bottom of the list of solutions....

[crunchee]

For a second, I thought your topic sentence said that the guitar had been 'Kieseled'.

[ARM OF HAMER]

                                                                                                       That is where I always mount mine.

[Steve Haynie]

Someone might have been smuggling Kahler parts across the Canadian border. 

[Disturber]

Nothing to worry about. It happens to me all the time. My Kahler tremolo collection is huge.

[tbonesullivan]

If it works?  That's pretty interesting though. I have yet to find anything weird inside a guitar or control cavity.

[HSB0531]

Yes that was an option on the Steve Stevens model.

You could order a Kahler’d SS with a spare trem block,

or

You could order a non Kahler’d SS with the block and A router template to cut the pockets and add it later.

😏😁

 

[Ting Ho Dung]

That's normal. Would have been weird if it was a finger. 

[scottcald]

18 minutes ago, Ting Ho Dung said:

That's normal. Would have been weird if it was a finger. 

Man, to have a guitar give you the finger would be rough.