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Custom designed and manufactured
stainless steel tremolo arms for the genuine Fender®
Strat® tremolo bridge that accepts a screw-in tremolo
arm, NOT Squier®.
These tremolo arms are NOT
designed for any of the Squier®
Strat's®, so DO NOT purchase for any Squier®. These tremolo arms will NOT work
with any Strat® that accepts a pop-in tremolo arm
such as the American Deluxe, Elite, Ultra or Pro
series Strat®, none of those accept a screw-in tremolo
arm.
We custom manufacture each of our tremolo
arms by hand from precision centerless ground 303 stainless
steel which produces a satin silver finish. They
are not chrome plated.
Read this article
for a full understanding of our tremolo arm
designs.
Available In Three Lengths
- 4¼" Gilmour Length.
- 5¼" Intermediate
Length.
- 6" Standard Length.
Available In Two Screw-In Attachment Threading's
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10-32 - American
Strat® that accepts a 10-32 threaded screw-in tremolo arm.
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Metric 5mm - Import Strat's;
Mexican and Japanese Strat's® that
accept the M5 x 0.8 threaded screw-in tremolo arm,
NOT Squier's®.
Our 5-1/4" and 6" length
tremolo arms have a similar design to an
original Fender American Standard Strat® tremolo
arm in regards to the up-sweep portion of the
tip end of the tremolo arm. The up-sweep is the
angle that the bend closest to the plastic tip
sweeps up away from the pickguard surface. Our
5-1/4" and 6" length tremolo arms have a 27
degree up-sweep, where an original Fender®
American Standard Strat® tremolo arm has a
slightly increased 39 degree angle up-sweep. Our
4-1/4" short Gilmour style length tremolo arm
has less of an up-sweep portion of the tip end
of the tremolo arm at only 12 degrees and this
is indicative of this specific artist series
tremolo arm. You'll notice this difference
visually in the tip bends by closely reviewing
the above photograph showing all 3 lengths of
tremolo arms.
All of our tremolo arms are designed
around a free-floating bridge setup to create their
proper tip-to-pickguard distance. To effectively use any of our
tremolo arms your bridge
must be setup as
free-floating with the back underside edge of the bridge plate up off the body
by 1/8"..
As you will notice in the above/right
photograph showing all 3 lengths compared, each
different length tremolo arms first bend as it
comes up and out of the bridge is bent to a
different degree angle of bend. This is by
design to facilitate the same tremolo arm
tip-to-pickguard distance no matter which length
you may select. Each length will present the tip
end of the tremolo arm at approximately the same
distance down to the pickguard surface when in
the same playing position.
If you have a genuine Fender tremolo
bridge and are unsure as to the
correct attachment threading in your bridge read our
article on how to
determine your tremolo arm attachment threading
before ordering. These tremolo arms are not designed for
Squier's or any aftermarket or non-Fender tremolo
bridges.
The tip end of the tremolo arm is
threaded to accept one of our screw-on plastic tips which
are
available in six different colors; black,
cream, vintage cream, mint green, parchment or white.
The plastic tip color you select is supposed to match
your "Accessories" color which consist of your tremolo
arm tip, switch tip, knobs and pickup covers, so select
a plastic tip color that most closely matches your
accessories, you are not trying to match the tremolo arm
tip color with your pickguard color, that is incorrect.
If you have a mix-and-match accessory color arrangement
like on the Relic Gilmour Black Strat(shown on the
right) then do as you feel best for your Strat's color
theme...
Genuine Fender tremolo arm tips are slightly too small
to fit the 5mm tremolo arms, however the tips can be
reamed out by about 0.010" and then they will fit.
 If you have one
of the half-thickness tremolo blocks on your import
bridge then our custom tremolo arms won't have the
proper bend angle for that style of bridge, those
bridges accept the tremolo arm into the block at a 10
degree different angle than the typical Strat tremolo
bridge. You can confirm this by the removal of the
back plate on your Strat and looking at the bottom of
your tremolo block where the tremolo tension springs
clip on, the tremolo block will only be 1/4" thick and
that is not what you want to see, so don't purchase one
of these tremolo arms for that bridge.
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