I Love Floyds Thread::Show Your Appreciation

[16S]

I remember seeing the ads for those. Loved the crackle finish! How does the trem perform? still stays in tune?

 

[muckypup1]

I have a complete love hate relationship with tremolo bridges. They have brought me complete joy at certain times and caused me more frustration than probably any other single piece of equipment. I look at them as I do any other tool for creativity - they can be used in so many ways to say what you are trying to say musically. But damn can they be truly maddening at times.

+1

I like them, but the amount of shit my one gives me when I get a heavier set of strings or detune a little bit... I get into rage

 

[Glenn Fricker]

I remember seeing the ads for those. Loved the crackle finish! How does the trem perform? still stays in tune?

Oh yeah. You can beat the shit out of it & it always comes back to pitch. Always. There's a reason I've hung on to it for 22 years!

 

[16S]

+1

I like them, but the amount of shit my one gives me when I get a heavier set of strings or detune a little bit... I get into rage

Thats why you need a collection of gtrs

 

[JonWormwood]

Check out the Jem site the guy on there makes a livin out of Ibby set ups and he reviewed the ZT. He reckoned it was pretty good but i think he said no good for flutter...

No way dude! My guitarist has a ZT and that shit is insane! Flutters so hard, the bar whips back with so much force. It's great.

 

[STINNETT]

Floyd lover here. Although I prefer the top mounted, non-floating configuration.

This one sees a lot of abuse:

 

[16S]

^do you own that??? knowing of your skills.....Did you make it?

 

[STINNETT]

^do you own that??? knowing of your skills.....Did you make it?

Yes and yes.

But I made it out of parts, I didn't make the body & neck from scratch.

 

[deLuther]

I`m also prefer top mounted floyds, that is one of reasons of buying Caparison TAT.

 

[Mikaël-ange]

Rescensed vs non rescensed? Love both
Btw a low profil floyd is same feeling than non rescensed floyd

 

[the_drip]

 

[STINNETT]

When I say top mounted, I mean dive only - clamped against the body with just enough spring pressure to resist raising with a big bend. I hate that.

 

[Mikaël-ange]

When I say top mounted, I mean dive only - .

Top mounted= non rescensed
Or for Charvel/Jackson custom shop order: Jackson old school style floyd rose

 

[STINNETT]

Yeah, but some people still float a non-recessed Floyd. That's the part that I like to avoid.

 

[deLuther]

On my Charvel Model 6 tremolo (JT6 on lower photo) is not floating due to screw in sustain block (like clamped to body, but tremolo is perpendicular to posts), on other hand on Caparison tremolo is floating - I just like the feeling of top mount more.

 

[Metaltastic]

When I say top mounted, I mean dive only - clamped against the body with just enough spring pressure to resist raising with a big bend. I hate that.

I like the idea of this too, but I've never understood how one would lower the action if it needed it?

 

[16S]

Markus - guess you could shim the neck

..regarding top mounted trems i dont like the height they bring your right hand to. I like the feel of something lower profile, hence recessing the trem. Because i am not an accomplished lead player i can live with the pitch change on double stops for example.

 

[Jind]

I like the idea of this too, but I've never understood how one would lower the action if it needed it?

I guess that's one benefit of the Kahler 2300/7300 flat mount system - they have full 6 way adjustable saddles providing not only for height adjustments, but full radius, and string width as well.

In reference to Floyd system I do like the flat mount approach quite a bit - I had an old stripped and plugged then filled Kramer body/rosewood neck combo (that I refinished in Sky Blue - it was the 80's after all), then built it into a usable guitar with a flat mounted Floyd and single Seymour Duncan humbucker (I traded it for something back in the mid 90's, that I can't for the life of me remember what.)

I really like the stability of a dive only unit - for quite some time I had my tremolo on my RGR420EX blocked (mostly because of a lot of alternate tuning experiments) in dive only mode - it's only been in the last year that I unblocked it for full motion. Despite all the flack the Ibanez Edge III Tremolo gets - I've had very little problems with it, but then again I'm not exactly a fan of wild tremolo histrionics, I'm a very light articulation type tremolo player - very rarely doing wide pull-ups or dives.

 

[Mikaël-ange]

Yeah, but some people still float a non-recessed Floyd. That's the part that I like to avoid.

Never see this
But now I understand your point

I like the idea of this too, but I've never understood how one would lower the action if it needed it?

You can't

 

[STINNETT]

I like the idea of this too, but I've never understood how one would lower the action if it needed it?

If it's a bolt on guitar, you can shim the neck. If it's a set neck you just have to get it right. You can start with super low action and raise the bridge a little, although it will angle backwards against the body. That's the way my EVH guitar is set up.

As easier way is to just block it from behind with something adjustable so you can move it up or down with no problems.