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I've got a bit of an obsession with tremolos and I've gone through a lot of varieties, from Bigsbys on an archtop to Bigsby copies on a Les Paul to where I am now with a Jaguar.
If you want those big swirly surfy trems the Jag/Jazz is the way to go. There's something magical about that floating trem that just makes the sound so so rich.
If you want to add a more subtle trem to an existing favourite guitar I would have no problem recommending adding a cheap Bigsby clone. I picked one up for like £20 off ebay and it works just as well as the officially licenced Bigsbys. Not as pretty but sounds just as good.
In my experience, if both are set up right, they're both stable. It's just that those jazz/jag floating trems go much deeper.
And you're right, Floyd Rose trems are just not worth it. My old guitarist had one and if you snap a string you literally cannot play the damn thing. They sound like dogshit too. The amount of gigs we had where we had three or four minutes dead time because of the fucker. He smashed it up just before we got signed to force the label to pay to get him a new guitar. Bastard got a 1976 three-pickup Les Paul Black Beauty. Infuriating.
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I sort of need a guitar with a stable trem for big bendy chords on a limited budget (ideally <£300). Not sure if strat will hack it but maybe jazzmaster or jaguar? Otherwise looking at super-strat type things with floyd-rose hardware, which are a bit vom.
Any ideas? I would prefer hot single-coils or p90s to HB...