Got the vibrato like 85% of the way there for going down in pitch, still need to do a little finer filing on the nut cuz it’s got 11s now and was cut for 9s or 10s. I can do flutters fine and it stays in tune for the most part, I can dive a little and it throws the G out a little, but I can’t pull back on the arm and go up in pitch on stay in tune and it doesn’t always reset back in tune when using the vibrato without some help pulling it back to neutral. Taking a file to some edges on the vibrato plate/buying a vintage vibrato unit will fix a lot of the return to zero issues cuz these Nip plates don’t hold a sharp edge for the metal on metal contact and that increases friction which causes it to have problems returning to in tune without help. Was having a hard time getting the action height and break angle right with shimming the neck with two different sizes, but then I said screw it let’s try no shim and what do you know it’s way better without any shim.

It feels great, it sounds great, and I genuinely enjoy playing it; I just want it to be a little more stable tuning wise. I expected it to be a pain and not perfect tuning wise but I still want to do whatever I can to make it as perfect as I can. I’ve got three Strat style vibratos and one Floyd Rose and never use any of the vibratos (I’m a simple hardtail retard 2bh, keep it simple stupid) so if I can’t get this vibrato as perfect as I like I’m honestly considering just blocking the vibrato with some nuts and bolts/buying a hardtail unit that looks like a normal Mustang unit and either eliminating the rocking bridge or just getting a Mastery. I didn’t buy a Mustang for the cool weird vibrato unit, I bought one because I specially wanted a short scale with two lower output pickups that was super light and handy and a Mustang is all of that. I won’t be missing the vibrato if I decide to just ditch it.

Thank you again for coming to my Ted talk blogpost yet again