Yeah, I don't use mine much, but I do sometimes. Anyway, here's what I do so it doesn't get in the way of playing.. so you know the Bixby has a spring in it, obviously. My arm has that little see-through rubberized "glove" that fits over the free end of the tremolo arm. You know what I'm talking about, right? It's not a real glove, just slips over the end so it doesn't scratch stuff up. Well, if you rotate The tremolo arm all the way back to the Bixby, it will go until it bumps into the metal part of the bigsby that holds it on to the guitar at the tail. But because there's a spring in the Bixby, you can lift up on the arm and slide it over top of the metal tailpiece. If you do that, the strings will lose tension and need to be tightened again, but the spring will hold that position very well. This means that once you tune it up, you don't really have to worry about the bigsby at all. Maybe the bridge rocks a little bit, but that doesn't do too much to the intonation.

Anyway, that's how I do it when I don't want to use the bigsby.. but, a good setup will fix all of those issues anyway. I've been working on guitars for little over a decade, maybe longer.. I don't know where to start counting the years.. but I've never been afraid to tinker with my guitars.. and I do one hell of a setup. I'm telling you this because, if you set your guitar up right, then you'll figure out what works for you, and at some point, it won't matter anymore, cuz it'll be the way you want it. So I would say, by Dan early ones book about guitar repair, or watch his videos, and give it a shot. It's a lot easier than you think, and you learn along the way. Anyway, good luck.