VikingBlues

I'm looking for some advice please. I'm at the early stages of a Strat build, and I've not done one of these with a trem system before.

If the body is 41mm thick, is a 40mm trem block pushing luck for a proper fit. The body I've got hold of used to have a 35mm block, but I've been given to understand I'm likely to get better sound / sustain from a bigger block.

I can get a 38mm block where everything else in the bridge assembly should fit and match, but only in black which means rearranging my thoughts on scratchplate / pickups / jack for colours. At 40mm there's no trouble with getting chrome.

I know this question is quite likely to be daft or have an obvious answer, but I've tried google searches and got nowhere - maybe the wrong words in the search of course!

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Mr. G.

I don't use trem equipped guitars, so my experience is quite limited when it comes to them. However, 1mm of clearance sure doesn't seem like much... especially for a moving part. How will you fit a recessed cover plate on the back to protect the trem/springs?

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VikingBlues

Thank you Mr G. The 1mm - that's the nub of it! It's the moving part bit. I can't even find any good guidelines on line as to what relative sizes of body cavity and trem block are OK.

And I have no trem equipped guitars to take apart to look at and have never built one either, only hardtails, so I'm just guessing, but the 1mm didn't sound enough to me either.

I could take the easy option with 35mm which I believe from the previous owner of the body is OK as that's what it used to have, but I believe the bigger block could help the sound, and I'm trying to wring as much as possible out of what will be a pretty cheap project just done for fun.

Maybe there's more 38mm ones out there but most people selling these bridge / trem assemblies don't even bother to give measurements, which is a shame with strat style bodies varying so much in trem cavity depth. Though I've only got one persons "guess" that 38mm would be OK.

I'm currently hoping to get an answer back on this from about the only UK on-line supplier that details all the different sizes of blocks.

Hmmmm - I had thought that a strat style, with it's whole manufacturing process geared up to ease of building would make a straightforward project. Silly Viking.

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VikingBlues

The UK supplier got back to me.

"the 40mm block would be too big due to how the spring hook parts would stick out at the back"

Exactly as you said Mr. G.

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