Adding a whammy bar

jimmypage999

I have an Epiphone G-400 SG guitar and was thinking about maybe adding a whammy bar, but there is no hole to put the bar there. Please tell me if you know what I need to buy in order to add a whammy bar.

Thanks

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ud need one of those big bigsby type whammy bars u see on some Sg's but thats the only type you'd get in there a strat style trem or a floyd rose type trem wont work

just get a gutiar with a whammy bar

deaddonkey

"les trem" vibrato tailpiece for SGs/LPs

Doctor J

And if you actually want to be in tune after you use it you should investigate Kahler bridges. You'll need to do a bit of routing but it is minimal and you get to use your trem and stay in tune too

fish-head

On a similar subject, would it be possible to put a bigsby onto my Sheraton?

Patricide

deaddonkey wrote:

"les trem" vibrato tailpiece for SGs/LPs

Ok now that is class ive never seen those before, CAn you jus slide off the tail piece of the existing guitar and slide that on and hey presto you have a trem? Jaysus thats a mad job.

On the subject of the khalers, Dam there class.

Doc_Savage

fish-head wrote:

On a similar subject, would it be possible to put a bigsby onto my Sheraton?

easily!

minimal mods as well!

Bigsby's

demanufactured

Hmmm i dunno about that les trem....wouldnt there be a lot of friction on the strings going over the saddles

david

Yeah, recipe for string breakages

deaddonkey

demanufactured wrote:

Hmmm i dunno about that les trem....wouldnt there be a lot of friction on the strings going over the saddles

no more than any other guitar with a bigsby and ToM bridge...

a lot of gretsches have that setup. as long as there's no burrs on the saddles and you don't go overboard it's not a problem, i mean strings move over the saddles when you bend a note.

Doc_Savage

Not with a roller bridge!

deaddonkey

yeah, i like them. Plus extra chrome is always good.