Callaham tremolo or Warmoth tremolo

[porras]

HI !!

Recently I bought from Warmoth a full strat kit including hardware parts (vintage 6-hole tremolo, gotoh tuners) and Rio Grande Vintage Tallboy PUs, Although i´m very happy with my hollow body clone Strat,it plays and sounds great with a lot of sustain, i wonder if the callaham tremolo could improve tone and if it is superior to warmoth as they both seem to be the same tremolo with slightly lengthened string slot at saddles, same trem block, .... uhmmm, if you say callaham is better I could go for it with my next strat clone.

Regards

[TheWizardofAz]

Having used both, I feel the Callaham is way superior. Sustain is clearer, longer...much better. It's a combination of the improved saddle design, the solid steel trem block, the stainless screws..the whole ball of wax. I also put one of the steel plates on the bridge pup and that is even better. Definite room for updates.

[MattG]

I didn;t realise you could buy full kits at warmoth. Rude question (would be where i come from anyway) but how much?

[jimitone]

if you're going with a project strat from scratch I would say go with "fender". The bridge assembly and block for the vintage re-issue strats are really good, have a cold rolled steel block, say "fender" on the saddles, and are WAY cheaper than the callaham parts.

Callaham says that their slots are longer in their saddle...but...so what, I have been using vintage (fender) saddles for years and they are fine
(Callaham also says that Fender doesn't have true cold rolled steel blocks now...that is an outright lie)

[BLUELOU]

OK I USE THE VERY ORIGINAL FENDER TREMOLO WHOLE THING BRIDGE /SADLLES ON MY 62 REAL OLD STRATOCASTER IT PLAYS LIKE HEAVEN I DONT KNO ALL THESE YRS AND ITS NEVER GIVEN ME A OUNCE OF TROUBLE NEVER EVER 100%FACT

I CAN BREAK A E B OR G STRING LIGHTLY PUSH DOWN ITS IN TUNE FOR THE REST OF SONG THEN I CHANGE GUITARS

ITS ALL ORIGINAL ITS SET UP GREAT I CAN PULL UP ONE WHOLE STEP AND PUSH DOWN TO ETERNITY EVEN WHEN I BREAK E OR B OR G STRINGS SHE'S IN TUNE BUT I HARDLY BREAK STRINGS UNLESS I PUSH MY LUCK BUT I HONESTLY GO DO DIVE BOMBS ODD BALL HARMONICS AND WHAMMY TRIX AND MY FENDER STOCK TREMOLO AS OLD AS IT IS STAYS IN TUNE WITH THE BEST

IVE HAD FLOYD ROSES /KHALERS THAT ARENT 50% OF MY STRAT TREMOLO THE KHALER HAD MORE SUSTAIN BUT ITS UGLY


INCLUDING
THE 80'S STRAT SOMEONE CUSTOMIZED I BOUGHT IT IN 86 ITS A ODD ONE ITS GOT A FLOYD ROSE I DONT LIKE IT AT ALL NEEDLESS TO SAY I TOOK THAT TREMOLO OFF IT AND INSTALLED A STOCK FENDER ORIGINAL VINTAGE 6 SCREW BRIDGE ONE AND NEW PICKGUARD THE GUY WHO BUTCHERED IT DIDNT EVEN PUT A HUMBUCKER IN IT SO WHEN I TOOK IT ALL APART IT WAS POO POO THE WOOD WAS FRESHLY CUT OUT ETC ITS ALL FIXED NOW FOR WHAT IT WAS PUT THROUGH
TORTURE BUTCHER WORK


ITS FIXED NOW



GOOD LUCK
BLUELOU

[BLUELOU]

HI NEXT MOJNTH I WILL REPRODUCE ONE OF MY 62 STRATS IM ANXIOUS THE OLD ROSEWOOD SLABBOARD THE WELL I AM GETTIN POPLAR BODY IN VINTAGE WHITE MY FAV COLOR

I HAVE A REAL OLD VINTAGE FENDER STRATOCASTER TREMOLO I BOUGHT AT A GUITARSHOW

I GOT TONS OF FENDER ORIGINAL PICKUPS
AND PICKGUARDS
I AM REALLY ANXIOUS

IN THE PAST DONT LAUGH : REALLY GOOD STUFF GOOD ENOUGH FOR VAN HALEN GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME
BACK THEN
I USED MIGHTY MITE GUITARS PARTS FOR MY BEATERS NICE QUALITY THEY WERE PRETTY NICE I ADMIT NO MATTER WHAT IS SAID
I BUILT 3 OF THEM STRAT CLONES
ALL IDENTICAL VERY BEAUTIFUL GUITARS NOW SOLD ALL LITERALLY IDENTICAL TO A FENDER STRATOCASTER BUT WITH MY TWISTS
LATE 80'S EARLY 90'S



THIS TIME


I MIGHT GO THE USACG ROUTE I STILL GOT A LITTLE TIME
TO MAKE UP MY MIND
PLUS I DO NOT WANT TO WAIT LONG FOR MY BODIES OR NECKS
THATS WHY I DIG MIGHTY MITE PARTS GOOD QUALITY /PRICE FOR WORKHORSES
THIS IS GOING TO BE ONLY A WORK HORSE
NO SUPER SHINY BEAUTY IT WILL LOOK GOOD BUT I AM MERCILESS ON THE GUITARS

REASON I WAS LOOKING AT 62 FENDER REISSUES T AT MUSIC STORES
THEYRE MADE IN MEXICO I JUST LIKE MEXICAN CONSISTENCY BUT AFTER READING TELE-BOBS NIGHT MARE WERE BOTH BACK TO SQUARE ONE HE JUST HAD A BODY AFTER HE SOLD THE CRAY NECK
ALL I KNO IS I LIKE CONSISTENCY I AINT INTO PRIZEWINNERS IN
APPEARANCES THE MIGHTY MITES I ASSEMBLED ALL LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE A FENDER REALLY

PLUS I KNO WHAT WANT AND I CAN ORDER WHAT EVER FLOATS MY BOAT
MY GUITAR WILL NOT SPORT A FENDER REPORO DECAL EITHER

I AM A HONEST ASSEMBLER I LIKE MY PRIDE IN MY BUILDING ETC
SO ITS OK TO BE STRAY

LOU