On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 8:28:25 AM UTC-10, cibola do oro wrote:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ_OamX-PA8

That's a interesting video. It's a famous guitar but I've never gotten a look up close. The strings are set way at the edges of the fretboard - very radical!

I'm an advocate for that zero fret setup. A zero fret is an extra fret behind the first fret. Mostly it's used on cheap guitars and most guitarists find the whole thing to be unacceptable. The advantage is that you get rid of the number one reason for a guitar that goes out of tune - string binding on the nut. Brian May's zero nut setup is very simple and elegant and frictionless i.e., perfect.

I like his tremolo setup too. I just installed a tremolo on my Stratocaster - a complicated affair with bearings and rollers and springs and stops. The reality is that best tremolo I ever used was a simple piece of spring metal - like Brian's. Thanks for the link.