CALLAHAM VINTAGE T MODEL - 3 BRASS VINTAGE COMP SADDLES chez Guitar Store
"For A Truly Vintage Performance"
Made to Pre-CBS original specifications by Callaham Guitars, these tremolo blocks are precision-made in the United States and are exact replicas of the tremolo blocks used in the original 50's Stratocasters®. Just like the 50's Strat® trem blocks, these blocks are made from heavy, cold rolled steel and weigh a full 10oz (280g), producing incredible sustain, note clarity and response. The string ball ends seat just inside the trem block, as opposed to seating halfway up, which also increases sustain and tone transfer while minimizing the risk of a broken string becoming lodged in the block.
In trying to replicate the sound of the original 50's Strats®, many players focus on the guitar's pickups. While the pickups are extremely important to the guitar's sound, without a vintage spec trem block, your guitar will never achieve that same clear bell-like sustain and response.
"Leo Fender designed the strings to pass through an accurately machined steel inertia block. This is one of the main factors that gives all original pre-CBS Strats® fitted with tremolo their clear, bell-like sustain. But, unique features of its original design have been compromised to keep production costs down. The Callaham steel blocks that Specialty Guitars sells are the most accurately machined blocks to original specs that I have seen (I have two originals on two of my Fenders). You will hear the difference. (I have 45 years' experience owning, playing and working on Fender Stratocasters®.)" - Peter Murdie, UK
Bill CALLAHAM says :
"Today there are more people than ever building guitars and every major company has a "custom shop". We are not interested in being known as another guitar builder, but builders of musical instruments. Sound and feel is what drives us. That is what drives great musicians. I learned this many years ago. Great players only care about the sound and feel, they could care less about flame tops and ornate pearl inlay. They listen with their ears, not their eyes.
I have been very fortunate to have access to truly great vintage instruments and have developed my ear from their remarkable tone. That is why we work everyday not to just be equal to those instruments but to exceed them.
If you have never played a really great vintage instrument and have only been exposed to reissues by the major manufacturers, you may not understand what I hear in terms of tone. Great instruments make the hair stand up on your neck. They talk to you and it is hard to put them down. That is what I want out of our instruments.
All of our guitars are handmade one-at-a-time from hard selected wood. Necks and bodies are sanded by hand to remove all sharp edges, blending them into a soft radius, giving the instrument that smooth worn in feel. The bodies are finished only with nitrocellulose lacquer from the bare wood out. Our hardware is known as being the absolute best. Paying attention to the details is what distinguishes our instruments.
To all those who have bought our instruments and hardware we would like to say "Thank you" for helping us to get where we are today".
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