Hi all,
I have a love-hate relationship with Floyd Roses. You can do a lot of fun things with it. Also, for me, I like their "low profile" they have, providing a nice positio for your picking hand.
But, I've never seen a very stable Floyd Rose. I think, the thing that pisses me off the most, is re-strining a Floyd Rose guitar.
I don't know about you guys, but for me, even if I think I do all the tricks in the book, it takes like 103 tuning iteration before the bridge stabilizes to its horizontal position (meaning a stable tuning).
Like most of you know, a properly setup Floyd Rose will be horizontal when the guitar is in tune. When you put new strings, it will take time for it to stabilize. That is: You tune your guitar, going from string 6 to 1 (for example). When you are done, if you back to the 6th string again, you'll see it's not in tune. So you re-tune, and re-tune, and re-tune, and re-tune, and re-tune. You stretch the strings, with the method of your choice, and re-tune, etc. As you do that, you see that your bridge is slowly coming back to a stable horizontal position, since the tension in the springs is slowly coming to equilibrium with the string tension.
Do you guys have any tricks that you do that makes this process faster? I honestly don't. The day I change the strings, I'll stretch them properly and re-tune the guitar multiple time. And then I'll leave the guitar to "rest" for at least a day. And I'll then re-tune.
But it kinda sucks that the guitar is unplayable for a day! XD
I have a love-hate relationship with Floyd Roses. You can do a lot of fun things with it. Also, for me, I like their "low profile" they have, providing a nice positio for your picking hand.
But, I've never seen a very stable Floyd Rose. I think, the thing that pisses me off the most, is re-strining a Floyd Rose guitar.
I don't know about you guys, but for me, even if I think I do all the tricks in the book, it takes like 103 tuning iteration before the bridge stabilizes to its horizontal position (meaning a stable tuning).
Like most of you know, a properly setup Floyd Rose will be horizontal when the guitar is in tune. When you put new strings, it will take time for it to stabilize. That is: You tune your guitar, going from string 6 to 1 (for example). When you are done, if you back to the 6th string again, you'll see it's not in tune. So you re-tune, and re-tune, and re-tune, and re-tune, and re-tune. You stretch the strings, with the method of your choice, and re-tune, etc. As you do that, you see that your bridge is slowly coming back to a stable horizontal position, since the tension in the springs is slowly coming to equilibrium with the string tension.
Do you guys have any tricks that you do that makes this process faster? I honestly don't. The day I change the strings, I'll stretch them properly and re-tune the guitar multiple time. And then I'll leave the guitar to "rest" for at least a day. And I'll then re-tune.
But it kinda sucks that the guitar is unplayable for a day! XD