Quote Originally Posted by DrNomis_44 View Post
Well, the SuperVee Bladerunner bridge is designed to eliminate one potential cause of tuning-instability with traditional Strat-Style bridges, traditional Strat-Style bridges use a set of six screws to mount on the guitar body and also to pivot against, over time the edges of the bridge which pivot against the six screws can wear out due to the tension of the strings, and also because of the fact that some manufacturers don't properly harden the metal used to make the base of the bridge, the wear causes friction which causes the bridge not to come back to a neutral position with all the strings in tune, friction in the string-slots also causes tuning-instability too, instead of pivoting on six screws like a traditional Strat-Style bridge, the SuperVee Bladerunner Bridge uses a piece of thin Spring-Steel as the pivot, the screws are there only to mount the bridge to the body, Spring-Steel is very hard so it doesn't wear out, the result is that the bridge returns to it's neutral point much easily, I have tried one and it does work well.
Quote Originally Posted by DrNomis_44 View Post
Note that I didn't intend for my comments to come across as negative in any way at all whatsoever, they were just a couple of suggestions for some possible mods that could be tried at a later date, from what I have seen, and heard of it, I think it is a cool guitar, and I really like the effect that was achieved with the Granite finish.
No worries at all bud, I didn't take any of it as negative! We all approach these builds differently, and one day I might lash out and do a kit with higher end parts just to see what comes out of it. I still want to have a crack at using those Lace Alumitones pups, just because they look so cool!!