Floyd Rose question...

[k0ldfuz10n]

I did a search but didn't find an answer to this specifically. I know you're supposed to change only one string at a time on a floyd rose but what happens if you take them all of and replace one by one? What kind of damage occurs and is it reversable?

[aschleman]

The purpose is to keep the Floyd in a floating position relative to where it should be after the string change is done. Since Floyds are floating trems, if you were to take off all the strings the spring action would pull the trem completely back until the trem can rock back anymore... This would make it a bugger to change the strings... and also to set-up afterwards because you would have to tune each string individually up while the trem slowly rocked back to it's original placement. I don't suggest you take all the strings off... unless you want a 20 minute string change to turn into an hour string change.

[k0ldfuz10n]

Thanks for the quick answer. I asked because a few years back when I got my guitar I did change the strings and I did in fact take all of them off at once (yeah I'm that guy) :rolleyes:

So long story short I have since learned to take the smart route and take it to a tech but I wanted to know if my dumb move long ago could have severly messed up my axe.

[Cryptic Excretions]

A friend of mine would always put something under the bridge to block it from changing positions so it didn't really matter how many strings he took off after that. Something like that would probably be better if you were going to clean off the fret board. I don't remember what he used to block it off hand though. I'm sure they make things for that purpose.

[bigbuda]

A friend of mine would always put something under the bridge to block it from changing positions so it didn't really matter how many strings he took off after that. Something like that would probably be better if you were going to clean off the fret board. I don't remember what he used to block it off hand though. I'm sure they make things for that purpose.

I always use a 9V battery that I wrap just a little bit of tape around to make it snug behind the trem block inside the guitar. ;)

[barnesjc]

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[Akira]

Hey Try this!! http://www.tremol-no.com/

That looks quite nifty!!

[Vegas Wierdo]

So if it makes your tremolo immobile... does it give back missing tone? Or... what all does it accomplish? :confused: