I've been thinking back a lot to this February, when I had a run-in at a guitar store... Nice place gotta say, they had one small room in the back with all of the more boutique-range guitars (you know, stuff I could never afford for my left ___...), I had already tried all the cheaper Fender/Squier trem-systems, just feeling the difference in action & smoothness. Walking in this room, it was mostly up-scale Gibsons and stuff.
Among those was a fancy white Gibson SG (probably a '61 LP/SG reissue), apon picking it up I noticed the trem-arm was oddly hinged but didn't think much of it. While playing it, I went to use the whammy, and quickly figured out it worked sideways...
I've been playing Bass & Guitar for about 5-years, so I've heard about the sideways-hinged Gibson Maestro Vibrolas, but I had never encountered one in the wild, so only being acquainted with the Fender in-'n'-out style trem-systems, this totally caught me off-guard in person.
So, a long while after leaving the store, I was looking around on amazon and... just can't really seem to find any trem-systems that haf the same design. Does anybody know of any top-mounted, side-hinged trem-systems that cost under $200?
