The Wilkinson R series is our most comprehensive range of Vibrato bridges. The R series offers many of the upgrades that Trev Wilkinson has conceived to give you the best possible performance in a modern vibrato unit, while still retaining the essence of the original vibrato bridge created in the 1950’s
R Series Key Features
The WVP6-R Series vibrato has many unique features that have been established and proven to aid in tuning stability and tone. The WVP6’s Six barrel nickel plated bent steel saddles are manufactured to original spec and offer that classic vintage look and sparkle associated with this style of saddle.
Developed on the groundbreaking Wilkinson VSV vibrato the WVP6 also features our unique stagger drilling pattern which achieves a more consistent break angle for the strings over the intonation point, this feature combined with our deep drilled billet steel block aids considerably in the goal of creating a much more stable vibrato system and ultimately a more in tune instrument.
The Total control vibrato arm system is full of Wilkinson developed innovations that offer the player the ability to set the arm tension and arm height perfectly to their preferred feel. The internally threaded stainless-steel arm is anchored at the bottom of the vibrato arm hole by a matching thread screw/bolt, and held perfectly in the delrin sleeve that is inserted into the block and which can be tensioned from the rear of the block, the stability of this system gives the player instantaneous control with no arm lag.
The knife edge of the traditional vibrato developed by Leo Fender in the early 1950’s is the anchor point of the system.
At this point many of the tuning issues associated with the vibrato develop, binding of components, misaligned screws and soft materials are all factors that cause problems and also factors that have caused Trev Wilkinson to continue developing solutions for these issues.
On R Series you will find three types of knife edge including our unique 5 + 1 system that was introduced on the VSV vibrato, our Wilkinson wave 2 point system, and our original 2 point VS system that was on the legendary VS100 vibrato and is exclusive to the VS50 IIKR in the r series range
Our WVP6-R series vibrato features the unique 5 +1 knife edge.
The 5+1 design conceived by Trev Wilkinson for the VSV vibrato from our Pro series was developed to alleviate the issues found on the traditional 6 screw vibrato.
THE PROBLEM
Same size screw holes on the base-plate with little clearance for movement, and misaligned screws which commonly occur when inserting the 6 pivot screws cause tuning instabilities and binding issues on the vibrato unit.
THE SOLUTION
Elongate 5 of the 6 holes across the lateral knife edge to allow for misalignment of screws and offer more freedom of movement thus avoiding binding, the sixth hole is used as the reference and index point for the vibrato and stops any sideward’s movement once the unit is fitted.
$124.99 – $144.99
