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I'm looking to buy a Lollar Imperial neck pickup (4 conductor) and Lollar Vintage blonde middle single coil for an HSH strat (I have the bridge pup already). I would prefer the standard wind Imperial, but any of them are of interest. Let me know if you have any for sale and what you're looking to ge...

By the way, do you know of someone who might be interested in building something like this or modifying an existing bridge system? You've hit the nail on the head for what I'm after in an ideal world. Thx I don't think there is an easy or practical way to build something like that as a mod to an ex...

Dustin, I've played guitar with b-bender, pedal steel, banjo with Scruggs tuners, and lap steel with Certano palm bender. Maybe this is unwanted advice, but I'm thinking that you will have a very difficult time trying to "feel" your way to a whole-step with any precision, when your hard s...

I have a Jackson on a tele. It works smooth and accurate and stays in tune. The ability to do drop D and accurately return to E is very neat. I am raising the B and G whole step ( on separate levers) and I don't see a problem with 3 half steps. You can set it up with what strings you want to raise....

AFAIK those Jackson benders work like most others mentioned, you can either raise or lower a given string, but not both on the same string. What you're after, a bender that will raise and lower the same string with a reliable open tuning at rest should be doable within a fairly compact mechanism bu...

AFAIK those Jackson benders work like most others mentioned, you can either raise or lower a given string, but not both on the same string. What you're after, a bender that will raise and lower the same string with a reliable open tuning at rest should be doable within a fairly compact mechanism bu...

I wonder if a Floyd Rose bridge would do what you're looking for, I'm not at all familiar with them but if you could make the bridge move just one string, the arm and the bridge would be much more compatible with what you're trying to do. I was considering using a Kahler trem because it is designed...

Hi Peter, Thanks for the detailed answer, that's very helpful! Re. the three semitones: I want to be able to play a chord on an electric guitar in standard tuning while bending and adding vibrato to a single note of the chord with my right hand bender lever. I want to do this in a fashion that simul...

Hi, Since you have experience with these units, I was hoping to get your feedback: - Do you find that it easy to do slow bends with it? - If you set the stop for 3 semitones up, would it work well if you wanted to bend up 2 semitones and use the lever to create a vibrato for a whole tone bend? - Do ...

Bill McCloskey wrote:I haven’t tried any others . That one experience cured me.

Haha, nice!

You can definitely do slow bends. But I sold mine soon after i got it for two reasons: the big one was string breakage, and it was a serious pain in the butt to replace the broken string. Not something you could do easily if it happened in a gig. And second, i found the levers to be really in the w...

I install a multibender on a guitar a few years ago. It can definitely do slow bends no problem. Check out Luke Cyrus Goetze on youtube for some great playing with one. I don't really know why you'd want to use the bender to get vibrato when you can do that with your bar, but... I guess it could? I...

I'm interested in the Duesenberg Multibender/Jackson The Edge string benders for electric guitar, and am hoping someone with experience with these units could answer a couple of questions for me: 1) Is it possible to do "slow" bends? Is the action smooth enough to allow for this, or is it ...

Thanks! I'll check those out

Hi, I'm new to the forum, but I'm hoping someone here can help me with something! I have been considering purchasing a Duesenberg Multibender for a strat or tele, but after talking to a guitar builder/tech friend of mine who is currently working on a guitar with one of these units installed, I reali...