Thread: block a floyd rose.

Hey, I really love the feel of the FR bridge. it is smooth behind the strings and resting your hand there feels nice and is easy to smoothly slide it up a bit and pull off some chugging metal riffs. But I don't use the trem much. I used a trem lock from Guitar Parts http://www.guitarpartsresource.com/guitar_index.htm but I found it vibrated a bit on certain chords. I still have that attached but just put a block of wood between the block and the body and tighten the springs to pull the block up nice and solidly onto the body. Works great and is reversible.

I have recently helped a mate make an explorer and we used a Floyd Rose pro bridge but fixed it as a hard tail. We got the idea from the Ibanez RG Mick Thomson model which has this big FR style bridge with the fine tuners but bolted down. But you can't buy them.

I like the ease of changing the action with the two hex head bolts on a standard FR and wanted to keep this feature but in a fixed bridge. I still used the studs at the front. I took the block off and put a couple of big screws through into the body but did not tighten them all the way. When the strings were put on it pulled the bridge up against the posts. So the bridge kind of floats. Worked out great. And looks cool because it so chunky.
This is clear in my head but I may not have described it properly so let me know if you want more details.
Cheers
Dom

From what mates have said, a 9V square battery seems to fit perfectly, maybe a few layers of electrical tape to get it snug. Dunno about the other side.. but there's sites out there that have step by step guides on blocking a Floyd. Other than that, I've seen the Tremol-no and there's also another one similar.. the Tremol-no site has a video to show it off. Not sure how well they'd work, but I know there's a few different companies doing the same basic thing.

OR.. if you want to get rid of it, and it's in good condition, I'm in the market for one.

mmm
not sure where to go with this one
if i dispense with the "mfg under floyd rose pats" bridge assembly it will leave a parking bay to be filled and diguised adding up to a expensive mod and i dont reckon its worth it


if we do that will pm you if ur interested in a copy floyd
i can also get em new a teeny bit better than rrp but still pricey

i stuck a highliter lid between the trem and guitar body (in the cavity) the piece of plastic held it in position perfectly. tjis was in my ibanez that was my first guitar.

edit:wasnt a floyd rose, think its the same trem they have on strats.

I have an ESP KH202 and the gap was only very small. Not big enough for a battery or a highlighter lid.
But I did try to think about the effect of what I used on the sound as the point of contact would be a big source of vibration transmission. I used a bit of maple hoping not to deaden the sound too much. Not sure how much this actually does but every bit counts and this is my favourate sounding guitar. I actually got it cheaply from cash converters in crap dirty shape but all there and in pretty good nic. I stripped it and cleaned it and gave it a setup and swapped the emg hz4 pickups for emg 81 and single coil SA in the neck in place of the humbucker. I filled the gap around the single coil with a bit of black leather and it actaully looks really good. But the sound possibilities are great. In the middle position it adds a really nice bit of bass to the edgy bridge pickup. Great buy. I rambling a bit so I will end it here.
Dom

here's what i done to the old charvette



I never changed nothing or put a hole or glue anywhere.
I know it aint no vintage treasure but its a fine example of that low end 80's style shredder. the neck is straight as a die and frets are very meaty. the pickups bite.

I just cut the pieces and tapped em down and they are in there pretty good. i wouldnt like to try to get those bits of mahogany out

however i am thinking over time the wood might shrink a tad and compress. my first idea was to screw the fillers in but if they get loose it will be nothing to put a small shim of hobby shop brass in and tap her down tight again.

any comments?

http://users.pandora.be/marnix.ghesq...ckingtrem.html

Looks pretty similar, only thing I could suggest is to make a template on whatever, so that if you do get shrinking, you can make a new set of blocks. Or, soak the wood in a light glue so it saturates and becomes like concrete. You might even find that you'll up the sustain slightly as your blocking material is harder and more rigid.