Mystery tremolo bar

[Hank Nagle]

Hi all!

 

Sometime in the last year and a half or so, there was a review in GP magazine of a very smart, new non-locking tremolo bar. I've been going through all my back issues and have been unable to find the review or remember the name of the company.

 

Does anyone here remember this?

 

Thank you! My apologies if I am posting this in the wrong place. I am but a caveman.

 

 

 

[Fumblyfingers]

Is it a ZR ..look on this link.....zero resistance or something.

 

http://static.keebali.com/jemsite.com/news/edge2003/index.htm?t=17084

 

[Hank Nagle]

No, it didn't have tuners and was a bit more compact, I think.

 

That looks like a well made machine though.

[Hank Nagle]

I think I found it. It's called the "Trem King". Pretty neat. Has anyone had a chance to try one out?

[stamplicker]

http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/trem-king-tk/may-08/36097

this the one?

[Caevan O'Shite]

I believe that GP has featured review-articles on two of their models (in different issues); they were the TK-1 and TK-2 (with a Tele-style plate) in the first review, and if I recall correctly, the TK-3 was reviewed in a later article.

 

I have not seen any of these "in person" anywhere.

 

Judging by what I read in the GP review-articles and on the Trem King 'site, personally, I think that I'd prefer a Wilkinson, Hipshot, or Calahan trem-bridge, depending on the guitar to be so be-tremmed. Or, for a Les Paul or similar enough guitar, the Stets Bar.

[Guitarzan]

sounds like the trem that is on the high end Blades like the one Reif has , the diff is the block only moves on up pulls.

as for Ibanez's improvements i should also point out that Yamaha had introduced many of those features on the rockin magic trems in the late 80's early 90's.

nothing is really new. but they are still good ideas that should not have been forgotten.

 

[Caevan O'Shite]

That particular trem that you're referring to on those Levinson Blade guitars was like two trem systems in one, one for down and one for up. There was a very slight, light 'clunk' if you went from pressing down to pulling up on the bar, but overall they worked pretty well. I used to know a guy who had one. A lot of precision machining in there making and a lot of attention to detail in their set-up, I'd imagine.

[Guitarzan]

yes, the basic idea is there , a trem that still does up and down action while sitting on the face of the guitar and adding sustain and tuning stability. as well as handling bends with no pitch problems.

this new trem is a natural evolution.

[d halfnote]

Haven't tried one...wasn't there something in the GP review about the narrow range of pitch bend?

For me that's a big red stop sign...why not just a Bigsby?

(Although the pitch stability for finger-bends is touted, I get no real problem with those on my plain-old Strat.)

[caprae]

Cool vids. You can go straight to Drop D without retuning the whole guitar.

 

http://tremking.com/vid.html#

 

[Guitarzan]

one thing always bugs me about trems, they (designers and makers) always go on about case hardened this and that and then proceed to say it has a Zinc trem block.

Hello trem makers..use steel ok. if you are serious about tone please throw away the crappy Zinc.