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KingOfIreland:
The planet waves locking tuners work really well for eliminating tuning instability! My dad put them on his strat and now you can fuck with it all day and never need to tune.

I'm considering getting some for my tanglewood if I ever get around to replacing the bridge on that

Patrick:
I found that good tuners, not even necessarily locking ones, do wonders for improving tuning stability. Even (especially?) with a tremolo unit.

brew:
I've actually gotten Grover locking tuners since that post for my MIM Strat, and they've helped a ton for tuning stability. Certainly to the point where I'd think most decent tremolos would be good enough.

I still haven't figured out which tremolo to get. It seems Warmoth doesn't actually do a tremolo rout for a Tele body if you request a Tele bridge pickup rout. It's only available for a humbucker rout. Has anyone tried putting a Tele bridge pickup in a humbucker slot? I see stuff like this but is that the correct angle?

KingOfIreland:
That looks about right to me. Why not keep a tele bridge on and go for an x-trem bigsby clone from guitar fetish though? I've heard good things about them and you can get roller bridges from them for teles too if I'm not very much mistaken. As a bonus, if you ever get tired of the tremolo (which is surface or tail mounted) you can just switch to strings thru body again.

brew:
I'm more into heavy rock stuff so I didn't consider a Bigsby style (though I haven't actually ever tried one before). I'm more into using it for pitch bends (like shoegaze, not divebombs) than the subtle stuff though. Maybe that would still work.

There's also the Stetsbar, which is a lot more expensive. Anyone ever tried that?

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