Anyone tried a Super-Vee Blade Runner trem?

[pipedwho]

I have an old Schecter custom shop 'strat' with a standard 6 screw vintage trem and would love to float it. But, when it comes to floating, vintage trems, and stable tuning, it seems to be pick two out of three. The sperzel locking tuners, lubrication and careful setups help, but the problem can never really be solved while that 6 pointer is in there.

None of my TAGs have this problem. Which I suppose is why Tom doesn't do 6 screw 'F' style vintage trems.

I found this product, the Bladerunner from Super-Vee (http://www.super-vee.com/index.html), and it looks like it might do the trick without needing any extra drilling (while also hiding the unused trem screw holes).

Anyone here used or installed one of these before?

[pipedwho]

Here are a couple of pics (the Bladerunner is the one on the right):

http://www.super-vee.com/images/SVandBR.jpg

And here's a side-on pic of the spring steel 'blade' that connects the two parts of the trem.

http://www.super-vee.com/images/Blade2.jpg

The front part bolts down solidly into the exist trem screw holes, and the back/block pivots along the spring steel blade.

Looks interesting, but the block is supposed to be made of aluminium, which will have some sort of tonal impact that could go either way.

[tom]

I too thought it looked very interesting so i tried one a while back. The feel was stiffer than expected. The fatal flaw for me and our gitars was that our saddles sit pretty far forward, which I like, but that put the saddle screws right in the groove between the two plates. Epic fail. If you saddles, particularly the high E, sit back far enough, it might be worth a try.
Never really got to evaluate the tone since the saddle problem was so severe.

[pipedwho]

Thanks Tom, that's a gotcha that hadn't even crossed my mind. I'd better do some accurate measuring and find out the exact dimensions of the blade runner, as my high e looks like it's dangerously close to where that gap would sit.

[tom]

Most are ptetty close to the front.