Electric Guitars are the inspiration for cries of "Turn that damn thing down"-Gibson website
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There is such thing as an "actual block" that fits into the back behind the tremolo unit. No idea how much it costs. I've seen it in a fwe guitars, and they seem to work good. The fact that you don't want to use the tremolo, brings me to the conclusion of just buying a "hard-tail" strat.