Meet the Jake Blade, a new guitar mod that could replace your whammy bar

RoughGauge Jake Blade
(Image credit: RoughGauge)

The guitar world is awash with companies vying to create the next great guitar accessory. And with its new contraption, the Jake Blade, Buchanan, Michigan's RoughGauge believes it's done exactly that.

Meet the Jake Blade, an easy-to-install vibrato unit that discards the concept of a tremolo arm, instead allowing players to utilize a small, convex metal plate – one that looks a little like a mussel shell – to achieve vibrato while playing.

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Sam Roche

Sam was Staff Writer at GuitarWorld.com from 2019 to 2023, and also created content for Total Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar Player. He has well over 15 years of guitar playing under his belt, as well as a degree in Music Technology (Mixing and Mastering). He's a metalhead through and through, but has a thorough appreciation for all genres of music. In his spare time, Sam creates point-of-view guitar lesson videos on YouTube under the name Sightline Guitar.