09's) don't have nearly enough tension to hold the saddles down without vibrating - huge design flaw! It had that sitarish sound and sucked all sustain out of the 2 upper strings. But the upper strings (at least on a set of. This seemed to work fine on the wound strings as evidenced by the huge sustain which could actually be felt in the LEFT hand. The problem is that the only thing holding down the saddles to the bridge is string tension. Turns out its the saddles on the high E and B strings! These puppies are designed like a loose jackknife with the "blade" end (see photo below) being clamped tightly by a wing fasten by a hex screw and the other end of the jackknife being the actual saddle is free to pivot against the blade and has two set screws for height (intonation) adjustment.
I could feel the lower strings vibrating the neck like never before! Wait, but what's that buzz? There's something loose vibrating somewhere.
monster and set her up to play, and immediately noticed 2 things: sustain was AWESOME, more than any other bridge I've ever had on any electric guitar. I would have to drill two holes in the face of my brand new arctic white mighty mite strat body to get her in, but based on all the reviews took the plunge with only a bit of trepidation.įirst I had to remove the old posts and plug the holes - these showed after mounting between the Wonderbar and pickguard, but I figured I'd eventually replace w a custom guard without the cutout which would hide the old holes. I recently found a NNOS Wonderbar - an anodized black model in pristine condition - on eBay and was highly stoked to replace my Wilkinson VS100 with it, since I was looking for better sustain, and being able to bend chords in relative tune. My main purpose was to be able to emulate slide and pedal steel sounds using a tremolo bar. I stumbled on a post and then several others which set me off and running in search of a Wonderbar, that seemed to fit the bill. Lacking funds and esthetic appreciation for such headless skeletons, I began a search for such a system that could be used on any stock guitar without proprietary or cumbersome anomalies. My quest for the Holy Grail of trems began after seeing a post regarding the TransTrem system used beginning in the 80's on certain headless guitars, namely Steinberger, which allowed bending multiple notes, and even full bar chords in perfect harmony throughout the bend. In 2016, is this truly a historic "Bridge of Sighs"? this was tauted as "The Answer" to Floyd Rose and Kahler.
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