Love me a good lunch report!
I had a ham and cheese mayo sandwich on rye, an apple, and a granola bar - all of which were washed down with a cool glass of water.
I prefer a hard tail to a tremolo system, ...but I
did pickup an 87' Fender Strat plus back in 90' or 91'.
It came with a locking Floyd Rose tremolo (with graphite saddles), and the full (rather than split) Wilkinson roller nut along with Sperzil black dot locking tuners. I bought it new from a local shop. I mention the full nut because back in 87 it seemed like a 'luck of the draw' whether you got a full or a split roller nut. Not sure which is better, but I like mine the way it is.
At that time my I had been playing mainly on an old early 70s Les Paul Deluxe (blonde top). I didn't know any better, or I would have kept it, but I sold it to buy the aforementioned Strat Plus. I'd been playing the Les Paul through a no-name solid state amp, just barely enough to be heard over the drums. - and nothing I tried could make that guitar sound the way I wanted it to. By that time I was moving on from influences like Pink Floyd, Led Zep, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and into Steve Ray Vaughan, Albert King, etc. So the Strat was purchased to get a different tone.
Once I started playing through a "real" amp - I realized my folly, but it was too late. I'd already sold the LP - and was fairly happy with the strat. But I should kept the LP - and- the strat.
In any case, I hadn't used a tremolo before, and I didn't really play a lot of music that called for a tremolo, so I never really took advantage of it. Now I wish I had, but not enough to cause any regrets. I think everyone has a history and that history shapes the sound they have today. Since I like my sound, I don't regret the path that brought me here, as it were.
But that tremolo was the one I used the most, and it felt very good.