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Yes you can, there are two ways of having it done. The guitar you have has a fixed bridge there for you would have to rout it out to fit a trem unit and or use a top mount system like a Bigsby. But Bigsbys are bulky and to me not to pleasing on the eye.

I have no experience on them so I can not back their playability. There are top mounting trems that are used on T-o-m type bridges (Like les paul style bridges t-o-m, stands for tune-o-matic) but your bridge is a flat plate model and you cant mount it.

An alternative is to buy a Fender squire satin strat they already come with the trem unit and they have a basewood body like you GAX30. If you have to have humbuckers their usualy swimmming pool routed (a square hole to accept single coil or humbucker pickups) so you can change them.

You can usually find them at sam ash for about $169.00 american. Or go to national music supply.com and buy a Rockland for $70.00 american (strat type guitar). They have alder bodies and you can hot rod that.

Good luck.

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I play ONLY blues and metal and if i didnt bend i wouldnt play but if your having tuning problems you probably need some new machine heads man and if that doesnt work you should......well you should learn 2 like tuning man  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">
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If you suggest changing machine heads (tuners) also provide what type. If the originater of this post bought standard machine heads he would still have tuning problems. Locking tuner which you may have been thinking of (?) may help keeping the strings in pitch. But string construction will have to be thought of because you are bending your strings (stretching). You may be alittle flat but you can retune alot faster. Food for thought.

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For your keyboard go to dell.com on line store.  For your amp I have a very small guitar research for checking pickups after rewiring or a new install.  For my small amp (practice) I have a Roland blues cube 30 watt with 1- 10" speaker. I paid $200.00 american for it. Their are alot of good inexpensive amps out there it all depends what you want and the sound you want ie; tube or solid state (circuit). Also of course how much money you have to spend.

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It does get better with practice and more practice and when your tired practice some more. After 33 years it has gotten better but I still PRACTICE.

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Play your effects one by one through your amp, also switch cords and check batteries.  This way you go through the process of elimination.  One of your effects can have a loose wire or going to ground (earth for you on the other side of the pond). I'm not an electronics geek but it won't hurt to try.  Don't open the amp yourself High Voltage is dangerous.

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Your right about continuing playing but You could have rebuilt your strat into a nice piece of work. At worst you could have learned from repairing and doing mod's on it.

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Play a bass you don't have to form the chord just the note.  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">

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Number one advice is to go along to many guitar shops and pick-up/play guitars irrespective of brand. Then as you get an idea of what you like consider price. For instance in my own recent search I picked up a lovely olympic white Stratocaster, American series and very heavy - but it cost two or three times what I paid for my Brawley which has a pretty much equivalent sound. Maybe my ears aren't connoisseur's ears but since they aren't I don't need to pay above the odds <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">

Beware guitars which try to give you a retro experience. Guitar technology has come a long way sisnce the 50s/60s so no matter have lovingly made a relic tele or strat might be genuine era passive electronics won't be as much fun as a good modern guitar (had great fun with the push/pull pot of my Brawley - pull and the coils are cut giving a telecaster-esque sound).

If you don't have a specific yen for a particular sound look for a guitar that gives lots of tonal variation with the minimum of fuss. My Brawley proves two knobs can do a huge amount. Likewise beware low output low quality pickups, I played a Peavy Rockingham which was fun but obviously faint and fuzzy.

Get the shop to give you a clean zero-gain tone and set the volume then play various makes and prices points through it - you'll be surprised. The Yamaha Pacifica is a nice feeling guitar but it's pickup is faint at a level where I could happily play a Bolin and a Brawley (the Bolin is very, very expensive).

If I was looking again I'd avoid collectable name makes like Gibson and Fender as a rule (unless of course I found something heavily discounted for decent reasons). Ibanez and Jackson tend to do death-metal specials, at least the shops I looked in didn't stock the more unusual parts of their ranges. Semis and archtops tend to be pricey and less robust so unless your particularly want a particular vintage sound keep looking (I can dial up a decent 'Searchers'/Brit invasion from the Brawley without spending huge amounts on an Epiphone Casino, which commands a price due to the Beatles connection).

Losing my point now, I'm sure others will add what I've missed and counter me <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_wink.gif" border=0 alt="Wink">

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Nice post but I don't think you really answered his question. I do agree with not always going with the standard Gibson or Fender, but here is one point I like to make with people who are buying guitars. Unless you plan on never truly upgrading and keeping that guitar forever, playing a Fender, Gibson, EPI for one gives you a decent sounding nice axe and two they are a hell of a lot easier to sell over something like a Brawley. Nothing personal but I could re-sell a thousand strats or les pauls in the time you sell the Brawley.
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I understand you statment in regards to the resale value and the ability to resell a particular brand of guitar.  But I think the point that Cytania is trying to make is that he found a guitar that he was happy with and is not looking to resell it (yet?) he is looking to play it. For what you paid for you american strat you could have made a semi custom strat style guitar choice of woods (swamp ash or alder) colors and or dye and type of pickups that you wanted for about $500.00 american (depending it you did the wiring and set up yourself). That price is still cheaper than an EPI LP standard (usually around $549.00 american).  Just keeping it real.

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A key statement you made "you had your guitar set up" and now it plays much better (easier, feels better to play, you get the picture). I don't know who Gordon Giltrap is but if your pleased on how your guitar plays that's all that matters.

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They won't be hiding because the highest points in Katy Tx. are the freeway on ramps. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">

Just kidding good luck finding your pickers.

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Go to www.nationalmusicsupply.com You could pick up a complete base for $60.00 to $70.00 american. With the money you save you could buy a set of p-base style pickups from guitar fetish(www.guitarfetish.com) for around $35.00 american, draw a copy pf the wiring and rewire the base with your new pickups and pots. Plus you learn for your next project because you will get hooked and build another.

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Their good if you like them as previous try different brands and see which ones sound, feel better and last longer for you. Then pick your favorite and gauge size that suits your playing style.

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