LFR gets bitch slapped...

[heffergm]

My DC727 got the tremol-no smackdown tonight. No time for an epic (or even interesting) picstory. In fact, I got finished and realized I'd forgotten to take pics of the actual tremol-no being installed.

But in any event, I've now got a hardtail DC727. Not quite what I'd envisioned, but it's my first and only hardtail, so having something different around is appealing. Plus it stays in tune, which never hurts.

Gratuitous glamor shots for your pleasure:

 

[Se7enMeister]

sweeeeeet guitar, love bursts

 

[Blood Tempest]

Tremel-pwnt. Congrats, since thats what ya wanted.

 

[yevetz]

 

[Shawn]

I am in love with your Carvin. Very nice!

 

[HaGGuS]

 

[wlminter]

Now, I'm not an expert on the termol-no system, but are you using a chunk of cardboard to block the trem? If so, +7 to you!

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

dude, why the cardboard?

 

[Ryan]

That guitar is stunning man...

+1

That thing is so sexy.

 

[heffergm]

The cardboard's just there to keep the trem bottoming out on the body of the guitar while I'm doing the tremol-no install...

 

[Mr. S]

im so nominating this for guitar of the month next month, every time i see that quilt makes me gas hard for a carvin

 

[FortePenance]

Great looking Carvin. Reminds me of a tiger.

 

[Stitch]

Goddamn, the LFR on Carvins is inexcusably ugly.

Thats a mind blowingly pretty guitar dude!

 

[Apophis]

Looks great

 

[heffergm]

Goddamn, the LFR on Carvins is inexcusably ugly.

Thats a mind blowingly pretty guitar dude!

Yeah, it's not the best looking trem. But if I'm going to leave it locked down, I can't really justify bothering with an OFR, although it's still somewhat tempting.

 

[Emperoff]

Your guitar is just pure class dude

 

[loktide]

1. that guitar is pure secks

2. the picstory is a phailur

 

[ibznorange]

i would suspect the cardboard is to dampen spring noise

 

[speedy1]

I just ordered a hardtail DC727 about 10 days ago...

I'm curious-- why did you not keep it as a floating trem? I know your guitar didn't have a locknut, did it have trouble staying in tune?

 

[heffergm]

I just ordered a hardtail DC727 about 10 days ago...

I'm curious-- why did you not keep it as a floating trem? I know your guitar didn't have a locknut, did it have trouble staying in tune?

A bit, although take that with a grain of salt. My ears bleed if I'm off a few cents.

That said, I'm not quite sure if I'm going to stick with the tremol-no being locked down. For some reason, I'm getting a ton of resonance through the bridge, and it's really hard to keep the strings muted (like beyond what I'd consider normal).

EDIT: at this point I'm sick of mucking around with it, so I've decided to just leave it in hardtail mode. Dropping the pickups down a bit helped actually, and it sounds a lot less treble-y which is an added bonus.