Guitar Monkey Cryo Tuned & NOS like Silverback Vintage Pre-CBS Tremolo Springs Set (5 pieces) - weak tension - Nickel

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✔ Contents: 5 cryo tuned vintage correct tremolo spring with soft tension

✔ Cryo Tuned: Sound and feel of 60 year old tremolo springsthrough our cryo treatment 

✔ NOS like: brand new and high gloss nickel plating

✔ Vintage correct: Vintage correct dimensions, material and finish 

✔ Tension: Soft (butter-smooth tremolo use)

✔ Material: high quality spring steel (1/19 inch / 1.33mm wire gauge)

✔ Surface: nickel

✔ Suitable for all common tremolo systems

Our Pre-CBS Vintage Tremolo Springs

With our pre-CBS vintage tremolo springs, we have created vintage-correct replicas of the old originals that are not only visually but also sonically the perfect replicas. In addition to the correct spring steel and nickel coating, the vintage-correct wire diameter of 1.3 mm ensures a soft tension and a soft sound from the tremolo springs. 

We are the only manufacturer in the world that offers its vintage tremolo springs in different versions. We are particularly proud that our vintage tremolo springs not only look and feel like the originals, but that they also sound like them! We make this possible by offering our vintage tremolo springs also cryo treated. Through the cryo process, we achieve aging of the tremolo springs on a molecular level and thus a sound like tremolo springs that have been played and used for over 60 years.

Here you can find out more about our highly complex cryo process.

We offer our pre-CBS vintage tremolo springs in the following versions:

• NOS Like: These vintage tremolo springs have a brand new, high-gloss nickel coating. Click hereto get to the feathers.

• Aged: These vintage tremolo springs have an authentic aged nickel plating and look like 60 year old and played tremolo springs. Click here to get to the feathers.

• Cryo & NOS Like: These vintage tremolo springs have a brand new and high-gloss nickel plating and have undergone our Cryo treatment for the ultimate sound just like the old originals! Click here to get to the feathers.

• Cryo & Aged: These vintage tremolo springs have an authentic aged nickel plating to look like 60 year old and played tremolo springs and have undergone our cryo treatment for the ultimate tone just like the old originals! Click here to get to the feathers.

Cryo tuning of guitar parts

The topic of cryo tuning or cryo aging of guitar parts has long since arrived in the guitar industry. It is undisputed that it leads to a mechanical and sound improvement, but unfortunately very little is explained about it, which is why it seems to many to be humbug. We want to change that here with a detailed description and are happy to give an insight into our cryo process. 

In technical jargon, one speaks of cryogenic or low-temperature technology. This is a type of temperature treatment of components with extremely low temperatures, down to almost minus 190 degrees Celsius. This process has been used in mechanical engineering for quite some time. There it is used to make components generally more wear-resistant (e.g. gun barrels or engine parts) or to increase the service life of tools. The service life of tools (such as cutting tools or indexable inserts) can be increased by 200 to 400% through cryo treatment! Of course, this is also a desirable effect for our guitar parts. 

With our cryo tuning, components are cooled very slowly and gradually to minus 180 degrees during a controlled process. This extreme temperature is achieved by liquid nitrogen, which, thanks to the machine provided for this purpose, never comes into direct contact with the components and cannot damage them as a result. In the machine, short cooling and warming-up phases alternate again and again within a specially tailored process. After more than 20 hours, the components are slowly brought back to room temperature and can be removed. So a very lengthy, complex and, above all, cost-intensive process.

But what exactly happens inside the material? For this we make a small excursion into physics, which can clearly explain the process to us at the atomic level. Physics tells us that it depends on the metal structure! More precisely, it is about the carbides in the metal. Carbides are metal-carbon compounds that are formed during the production of the metal, more precisely during its solidification. These are usually unevenly distributed in the metal and affect the material properties. The cryo treatment now leads to microstructural changes in the metal and the carbides are rearranged so that they are evenly distributed in the metal. This gives us more wear-resistant components and we can also clearly see an improvement in response, sustain and sound balance in terms of tone development. After treatment, components have the same properties as decades-old and well-established parts. Therefore, with parts from our Silverback Vintage series that have been cryo-treated, we can deliver THE vintage-correct tone in addition to the vintage-correct dimensions and materials!

We are the only manufacturer in the world to successfully cryo tune tremolo springs. You can clearly feel and hear the effects. Convince yourself, it's not for nothing that we give a 60-day Mon(k)ey Back guarantee on all our products! Other cryo-treated products will of course follow.