Last night, the un-thinkable happened, while testing-out a mod I did to the Super Vee Bladerunner bridge to eliminate a squeaking-noise, I pushed the trem-arm down to the body and heard a loud bang, I looked down at the bridge of the guitar and saw that the trem-arm had broken-off with the threaded part of it still in the threaded socket on the bridge, I said a few swear-words which I won't repeat in this thread....I'll leave it up to your imagination as to which swear-words I said, and then I closed the lid on the guitar's case and decided to leave it till the morning after I'd gotten a good sleep.
Anyway, I had a look at the guitar this afternoon and managed to extract the broken-off piece from the threaded socket, I'll post a pic so you can see where the break occurred.
Here we go:
So, I thought to myself, "How am I going to fix this", then while browsing on The Stratosphere website, I realized that the official Fender Strat Ultra bridges would be a virtual drop-in fit for the Fender USA Standard Stratocaster, what's more, the trem arm on the Strat Ultra bridge simply pushes-in rather than screws-in, and, the bridge on the Jeff Beck signature strat looks practically identical to the Strat Ultra bridge, so, I'm going to go ahead and order one of these official Fender Strat Ultra hardware packs as soon as I can:
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