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I am still putting most of my time on my custom Suhr carve top standard. I made a couple of changes to it late this year.

The first was that I changed the bridge pickup. When I had the guitar built I selected to have the SSV+ pickup put in it. It paired fairly well with the ML Standard single coils that I had put in it. Since I had the guitar built, 9 years ago (doesn't seem like that long), they released the Thorn Bucker 2. I tend to gravitate toward bridge pickups that use an A2 magnet and are around 9k. This pickup was a nice improvement in this guitar. I think it is a little unevenly wound. That really makes the guitar have the quack of a SSS Strat when using the pickup setting of the bridge and middle pickup. The overall sound of the humbucker sounds better to me as well. This was well worth the money. As a side note, the wiring in this guitar is the best I have ever seen of any brands I have been in the electronics cavity of. I couldn't believe the attention to detail in there.

The second change I made is I contacted Suhr and was able to get one of their new two point tremolo bridges for it. I pulled the GOTOH and putt it in a few weeks ago. This bridge is pretty expensive and it looks very much like the GOTOH that I took out. I put in the studs and springs that came with it to get as much of the new parts in the guitar without removing the claw. I didn't see that as a critical part to change. I am less pleased with this change. I was not having any issues with the GOTOH bridge. The guitar stays in tune extremely well and has since I got it new. I just thought I would update the technology in the guitar to John's latest work. Now that I have it in there, I wouldn't spend the money to do it again. I have 3 Suhr guitars with the same bridge in them. I thought if this was a noticeable difference that I would consider changing the others. I have not noticed any differences so far. If I didn't know I put this new bridge into the guitar I wouldn't even know something was changed. The trem arm is slightly thinner. The block on the trem actually has less mass. I am not sure why they beveled the block. If the intent was to make room for it to not hit the body when really dumping the arm down, it is a fail. The part that the trem arm goes into hits the body long before the trem block would make contact with it. Thankfully it hasn't seemed to lose anything by the block on this trem having less mass. My personal recommendation is if you have a Suhr with the GOTOH bridge in it, keep it that way. You are not missing anything.
 
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