Adrian, Janick and Dave's guitars and Steve's basses

Pinkoboe said:
The Kossoff strat never had a Kahler, but it did have a Rockinger system installed for the first part of the World Slavery Tour. It was removed before the tour ended. The headstock still shows the holes drilled for the locking nut.

I believe the book is wrong on this.

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I know that. The vintage Strat style bridge that was installed after is probably a Kahler. Kahler also did some non-locking Strat bridges and I think one of those is on guitar now or it was swapped back to original bridge since retirement of the guitar. I highly doubt that the original production Fender Strat bridge is on the guitar. Tremolo arm is also not something that you can get from Fender.

At least in the late 80's I think the Kossoff had some non-locking version of an aftermarket bridge with brass parts IIRC. Could have been swapped back since.
 
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matic22 said:
I know that. The vintage Strat style bridge that was installed after is probably a Kahler. Kahler also did some non-locking Strat bridges and I think one of those is on guitar now or it was swapped back to original bridge since retirement of the guitar. I highly doubt that the original production Fender Strat bridge is on the guitar. Tremolo arm is also not something that you can get from Fender.

At least in the late 80's I think the Kossoff had some non-locking version of an aftermarket bridge with brass parts IIRC. Could have been swapped back since.
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I've never seen a non-locking Kahler bridge that looks exactly like a Standard Fender 6 point Vintage Tremolo, I seriously doubt they ever produced one. Also, the standard tremolo arm from a Kahler 2300 series tremolo fits into a regular strat's tremolo without modifications (I have one in my Strat in fact). I'm pretty sure the one in Dave's Kossoff is either the original, or some aftermarket one that's identical (visually) to the original bridge.

Here's a 1989 Kahler Catalogue for anyone who's interested in taking a gander.
 
Mandume said:
I've never seen a non-locking Kahler bridge that looks exactly like a Standard Fender 6 point Vintage Tremolo, I seriously doubt they ever produced one. Also, the standard tremolo arm from a Kahler 2300 series tremolo fits into a regular strat's tremolo without modifications (I have one in my Strat in fact). I'm pretty sure the one in Dave's Kossoff is either the original, or some aftermarket one that's identical (visually) to the original bridge.

Here's a 1989 Kahler Catalogue for anyone who's interested in taking a gander.
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Then, it's indeed a mistake. But I remember vivirdly that Kossoff had a vintage Fender type trenolo with brass saddles at some point in the late 80s and an extra long tremolo arm, that is still on the guitar.

Also, I highly doubt that is the whole Kahler catalogue. There are some bridges missing, like the Kahler Steeler (used on Washburn N4's and the Kahler bridge that was used on the first run of Ibanez Jems). I think due to Fender and Floyd Rose patents (Kramer owned the later at that point) they weren't able to promote some models.
 
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