Next time I change strings I’ll do some more investigation and take some pictures.

I'll have to check what it's when the trem is floating. Right now I have a wood dowel in place of the spring and have it set up as a hard tail. The dowel itself keeps everything tight, and if I planned to only ever have it as a hardtail, I wouldnt be concerned. But I'd like to set it up floating aga...

Not really. The issue isnt that the post is sticking too far out of the bushing. The biggest part of the issue is how tightly the bearing on the trem fits into the post, and to a lesser extend, that the screw part (threaded post in the bushing that adjust the action) is a bit loose. I ordered a new ...

The bushings are tight in the wood. And the posts are pretty tight in the bushings. The treble one is tighter than the bass side. The bass side wobbles a tiny bit, but is tight enough that even thin polyamide tape won’t fit. The two bigger issues is the bass side trem bearing. It isn’t as tight in t...

Just to start, I've read and re-read Billy's leaning post post, my issue is not the one he describes exactly. Both posts/bushing are tight enough that I cant fit a shim inside to tighten it up (maybe I just need to find a thinner shim?). Second preliminary is that the guitar works perfectly well in ...

Hey all, I've been reading this forum for a while as a useful resource and I think I made a post or two on the old parker forum. But here's my fly. Bought it in the mid 2000's. It's a 98 deluxe. I remember getting the person who made the control knobs for the bronze fly to make me a set for this. I ...