PRS Tremonti Custom SE Trem route question

[rule308x]

Greetings,
I am very new to this group but I have owned and loved a few PRS SE models over the past years. My current go-to guitars are an green Allender SE and a brand new Sapphire Tremonti SE Custom. It is the latter that I have a question about. The description of the guitar on the PRS website state that it has a "PRS designed trem with up route". I took that to mean that you could only operate the trem in one direction, like Eric Clapton's blocked Fender trem setup, or maybe for better tuning stability. Oddly, mine goes both up and down. It's certainly not an issue as it is seems to be set up pretty well out of the box and stays in tune with trem use better than I expected. The Allender SE is great, but it's goes out of tune much more quickly, even with locking sperzel tuners. (although thanks to this site I have a pretty good idea why that is now and will be fixing it soon with a new nut.)

So, am I completely misunderstanding the purpose of the "trem up route"?

Thanks in advance!

Jeff

 

[Mikegarveyblues]

Up route means you can tilt the trem back into the body, so both ways or more travel to be precise.

Clap tons trem is blocked with wood so completely out of use but it still has an impact on the tone of the guitar.

Gilmour's Strat had a decked trem for a while meaning he could only use it in one direction but that's floating now.

Yep, new nut or widen the slots and stretch the strings.

Welcome to the forum Jeff!

We love pics btw!

 

[rule308x]

Up route means you can tilt the trem back into the body, so both ways or more travel to be precise.

Clap tons trem is blocked with wood so completely out of use but it still has an impact on the tone of the guitar.

Gilmour's Strat had a decked trem for a while meaning he could only use it in one direction but that's floating now.

Yep, new nut or widen the slots and stretch the strings.

Welcome to the forum Jeff!

We love pics btw!

Thanks!
That's different than what I originally thought, but your explanation clarifies it! Decked is what I was thinking but I didn't know the terminology. I do that to my strats and low end ibanez to keep them in tune.
I'll post a pic tomorrow morning. The sapphire color is absolutely beautiful.

Jeff

 

[dogrocketp]

Enjoy! That model is my #1, with several mods. The trem stays in tune beautifully with the new nut and a good setup. I like to go up when I`m bending a note up as far as I can. You can get at least another half step up.

 

[rule308x]

Here's a link to a picture...I couldn't figure out how to post a picture directly.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Dm0SBZDluSV0FWZFRtVXdkdXM/view?usp=sharing

 

[dogrocketp]

Nice color!

 

[rule308x]

Thanks! It's quite heavy but plays great. I'll be adding locking tuners and a new nut pretty soon. I also bought a Tremonti bridge pickup for it.