Steinberger R-Trem Bridge by JCustom & HeadlessUSA

This is an exact replica of the famous Steinberger R-trem that Ned Steinberger designed back in the Newburgh, NY. era.

To our knowledge, the is the first time that an exact replica of the R-trem has been manufactured. These are NOT the cheesy (and unusable) “Overlord of Music” Chinese copies that are advertised elsewhere.

The R-trem was first used on the USA-built GR guitar series. Then it was installed on many/most of the Steinberger guitar replicas, such as the Steinberger Spirits, Hohner headless guitars, plus many others. It is a knife-edge pivot vibrato that allows for extreme dive-bombing and other popular tremolo effects. As always with Ned’s great tremolo designs, it also features a locking system, which locks the bridge into a fixed-bridge arrangement. This allows for greater tuning stability when bending strings and will also keep your guitar in tune if/when a string breaks. This is also the only tremolo that Ned designed that can easily be used by either a right-handed or left-handed player, as there are tremolo bar openings on both sides of the tremolo.

Installing this tremolo is a simple job of removing the worn out original and installing the new. This is an easy job for the “do-it-yourselfer” or you can have the work done by any competent guitar tech.

Each tremolo ordered will include the matching black tremolo arm plus the proper allen wrench for adjustments.

R-Trem Compatibility Chart