All the Krazy Kahler news!

Given that the Painkiller solo and the whole song is still so influential after all these years, I'd say that's some sort of great tone whatever that means.

I am scratching my head to think of someone on a cam kahler that would traditionally be considered "great tone" but I think most of the claptonians would say the same thing about any floyd player as well.

There were some plausible suggestions about how these things could dampen strings or hurt sustain, but I did a few Flotsam and jetsam Albums and if sustain were ANY issue at all from the cam style Kahler, the guitars would have immediately gone in the dumpster. I'm trying to think of anyone who needs notes to last longer while wildly flailing on the tremolo bar...Maybe Wiley Arnett from Sacred Reich, but I think he was playing cam style kahlers at some point as well.

I could see sustain being hurt by not enough pressure on the saddles, but of all things that can change frequency or harmonic content, I don't really see anything plausible on a tremolo...the famous balsa wood chopstick bridge tests pretty much put the nails in the coffin that rigidity of the saddles has any effect on an electric guitar's electrical output harmonics (and really, given how pickups actually work its not ALL that surprising, but still had to be confirmed)

What happenes with those graphtec saddles? Do they kill sustain? I see people swearing by titanium floyds...somehow both mass and lack of mass are claimed to help sustain...and crazily the same people swearing by giant brass blocks say titanium is even better!

This is why claims like these need evidence, not just anecdotes
I totally understand your point about evidence and I agree with you but the trouble is nobody has bothered to record it. I have seen all the things you mentioned here and conducted extensive experiments with them since the mid 80s when I started to fit trems. All I can do with you is share my experience and I assure you that I am as much about evidence as you but a lot of it was before it was easy to make a video about it. Your comment about mass regarding Floyd parts is completely correct and there is a lot of snake oil in this area . I personally think titanium Floyd parts are garbage functionally and sound thin but titanium strat and tele saddles are ok . They are subject to different demands. This particular kahler argument started for me in the early 80 when I first fitted a flat mount on a Strat. It killed the resonant quality of the guitar entirely. I even phoned Kahler because I thought it was maybe something I did wrong. It wasn’t, the design is just inherently bad for the reason I stated above. I have fitted and removed Ti Floyd’s and everything FU sell. I could write a book on FU and other garbage troll science products based on nothing but assumptions and misinformation. I get you need me to show you the evidence but in truth I didn’t keep it beyond myself. I get you don’t want to just take my word for it because in your position I wouldn’t either but it is based upon real experience of all the problems and products available over the last 40 years 33 of them as a full time tech.
 
This is good news all around. Now I don’t have to worry about not being able to get replacement parts for my HM Strat and its Spyder anymore if/when I need them (it looks like the only thing they changed was fine tuners).
 
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