It's been a few days, during which I've restrung and set up this guitar. When I worked on installing a trem-setting device, I heard a clicking sound at first. This turned out to be the result of the hole in the back of the trem-cavity not being deep enough. I have totally readjusted this trem-setter several times now. My current assessment of the trem-setter is that sometimes it seems to work perfectly, performing exactly as described in its accompanying literature, but at other times it doesn't work at all or even seems to work opposite its intention. An example is that one of its intentions is to keep the low "E" string from dropping in pitch when the player bends the "B" or "G" string. Immediately after being readjusted, the trem-setter does this, and the low "E" usually stays on pitch; several days later, however, the "E" string may drop more than a whole step. [Keep in mind that a whole step is more than the "E" string usually drops without any trem-setter at all!] Another intention of this device is to keep the player from having to push the string further to reach the same note. (This is sort of like comparing a tremolo Strat to a non-tremolo Gibson with less than 25.5-inches scale. Normally the player does not have to put forth as much effort to bend strings on a smaller scale, non-tremolo guitar.) Sometimes the trem-setter accomplishes this, but at other times it requires the player to put forth more effort to bend strings than he would normally expend to bend strings on a Fender without the trem-setter. I probably don't fully understand how this trem-setter works because so far I do not know exactly what is making it inconsistent.

Today I am replacing the tuners. I am installing tuners from a local music store. These tuners are probably from China; they are built well, sealed, and appear to be high quality tuners. The cost was slightly less than equivalent Grover tuners. I am aware that Grover tuners would probably increase the value of the guitar much more than the amount of difference in cost.