LGM Guitars Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Like I say, it depends on the type of brass you use, Yellow brass would DEFINITELY not work, aluminum bronze might, but I would still go with stainless, at least then you can harden the pivots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goth_fiend Posted November 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 im pretty sure what i have is stainless but i will have to check, i have had this piece for months now and been using it as a paperweight basically, how wide do you think the block should be to hold all the springs jeremy? this things going to be huge as it is! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevan Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 You guys are talking about two different parts of the trem. -LGM is talking about the main plate (what the saddles mount to; the plate that pivots) -Goth is talking about the tremolo block (the block that the springs hook into; Tremol-No clamps on to). For the plate, use steel. Those pivot points have to be very hard (or hardened). Brass would last about 1 song. LOL For the trem block, brass would work (works for Driskill!), and steel is fine. I've seen trem blocks in everything from Lexan to titanium. My suggestion would be to go with a steel alloy. Anywhere between 8mm and 12mm thickness will work just fine. Maiden- no worries. I'm just a big fan of 7075. It's a lot like 6061, but a little more brittle, and tougher to machine. It's by far my favorite aluminum. 6061's no slouch either. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maiden69 Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Nice to know, I think that I will continue using the 60, the only thing I done to it is add the helicoil to ensure a stronger thread area, other than that It worked great, and it's not so easy to machine but I rather do it than any steel. This topic has opened up my mind a lot, Inever thought of the idea to make the trem plate nad just add that original hardware to make a 8 string, This is good advise! If Iever do like this it will be my guitar and I care less what they think about license! I understand the situation for Jeremy since this is his bussiness, I have manualy hardened steel, but I love the ovens, it gives it that bell tone uniformly. I done a few stuff but mainly for cars, the best one so far was a remote oil filter base for a '66 VW Beetle 2500cc turbo engine, after hardening I bath it in used oil and it took a beautiful blue tone, still ot this date it looks blue and it's in PR ! Good luck to all in this quest, I will be storming my mind about this too, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goth_fiend Posted November 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 yeah i will definatly be using steel for the baseplate, how much do you guys think it would cost for a big enough piece of steel? (note i dont really know much about metals so bear with me...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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