A beautiful guitar but my one niggle was the Wilkinson locking trem. Once set up correctly it is fine (almost Floyd Rose like in it's operation) but it is a little difficult to get right and a pain if you want to change string gauges or tunings, certainly not a 5 minute job.
For many years it was my only six string electric but, as my 'collection' grew, it fell out of favour and I haven't used it live for several years (the trem let me down last time I used it at rehearsal which made me lose confidence). The band I play with these days de-tune by a semitone, so I never considered it, but the other week I decided to bight the bullet and re-set it for the lower tuning. It made me remember why I loved this guitar so much, but still there was the lack of confidence in the trem. I had a look on line and was pretty sure that I had identified a suitable, non locking, Wilkinson replacement. After a quick chat with the CEO of Patrick Eggle guitars at the NW Guitar Show last week I was happy that I'd picked correctly so, as an early birthday present, I treated myself and the guitar to a new VS100N trem.
Fitting was easy enough (I kept the imperial posts from the old unit together with the spring claw) and after a fairly straight forward setup the guitar is ready to go. The new trem is much firmer, which I like, and tuning stability is good. I'm now looking forward to the next gig.
