And Still The Tail Wags the Dog

The standard tremolo arm used by Fender/Squier has always been too long. It gets in the way, it is hard to grab and use, but Fenders can bend better than most. So it has always been a source of trouble for me.
David Gilmour, too.

In 2009 when I tried, unsuccessfully to get back into strats I found a firm called OverDrive Custom Guitar Works who made the short Gilmour style arm...
In 2009, OverDrive didn't have the model on the bottom of that picture. They sent the model above it, which of course did not fit my Squier. So to rectify the situation, they fabricated a new line...for me.

That guitar and I did not bond. The neck radius was 7 1/4 inches - far too curved for me. And then it had a rosewood fretboard. This was an issue of the feel, not sound.

But now with my new, white, white, OLYMPIC White strat, I am again drawn to a shorter tremolo arm - one that I could actually use.

With shipping it was $20.20 - very reasonable.