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Post by Pinetree on Dec 4, 2020 13:34:08 GMT -5
^this.
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Post by modbus on Dec 4, 2020 16:58:13 GMT -5
funkykikuchiyo, thanks, that's really helpful.
And Leftee, that's a great plan, if I could get the Mrs. to go along with it.
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Post by Leftee on Dec 4, 2020 20:21:00 GMT -5
funkykikuchiyo, thanks, that's really helpful. And Leftee, that's a great plan, if I could get the Mrs. to go along with it. All the same color.
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Post by modbus on Dec 4, 2020 21:01:50 GMT -5
LOL, brilliant!
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Post by Pinetree on Dec 5, 2020 11:34:06 GMT -5
And not to overstate the obvious, but once you get one of these suckers locked down... you don't have to tune it for months.
I mean stick it in the case and get it out a year later and it's still in tune.
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Post by Leftee on Dec 5, 2020 11:44:04 GMT -5
^ Truth
Once the strings are done stretching and the guitar is set up, it’s golden.
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Post by De ville on Dec 6, 2020 3:10:52 GMT -5
FWIW, what I really didn't like about the bridge was that it went out of tune with even just a little tweak of the bar, so with all the other idiosyncrasies of the bridge, it made blocking it an easy decision. With a locking trem, the main function should work fine, so I'd like to give one a try. If set up properly, they are dead stable.
I have been playing a my new to me Charvel Desolation DX-1 FR Soloist for the last three months. I'm still on my original tune since I set it up, and I dragged it to CA, and back to WA, and it's still in tune. This is doing big bends up and down.
If you can change the strings correctly, and do a proper set up, you can change tunings correctly, and pretty quickly actually, but not on the fly.
The absolute dead simple way to set up a fully floating Floyd Rose or FR style tremolo. This is a must watch.
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Post by De ville on Dec 6, 2020 6:39:04 GMT -5
The cheapest ones out there have posts/knife edges that wear too quick, and sometimes when the floating just fights you like crazy, just changing the springs can make everything snappier, snazzier and cleaner.
With the cheap bridges, you have to lower the spring tension, so as to not damage the blades while adjusting the height. For those that don't know, there is two knife edges that pivot on the bridge posts. This is the pivot point.
The experts say, with a genuine FR, you can leave the strings at tension, and raise or lower the bridge. This is because the metal is 'way' harder.
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Post by modbus on Dec 6, 2020 10:53:44 GMT -5
FWIW, what I really didn't like about the bridge was that it went out of tune with even just a little tweak of the bar, so with all the other idiosyncrasies of the bridge, it made blocking it an easy decision. With a locking trem, the main function should work fine, so I'd like to give one a try. If set up properly, they are dead stable.
I have been playing a my new to me Charvel Desolation DX-1 FR Soloist for the last three months. I'm still on my original tune since I set it up, and I dragged it to CA, and back to WA, and it's still in tune. This is doing big bends up and down.
If you can change the strings correctly, and do a proper set up, you can change tunings correctly, and pretty quickly actually, but not on the fly.
The absolute dead simple way to set up a fully floating Floyd Rose or FR style tremolo. This is a must watch.
That really doesn't seem all that bad. Not much worse than restringing a strat.
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