My tuning is B-F#-b-E-G#-C# known as dropped B. I receive my guitar in the mail and it comes in E standard tuning. So I tune it down to B and the balance of the tremolo shifts downward due to the lesser string tension from my tuning. So to fix that I removed one of the 3 springs from the tremolo, and it balanced right back to where it should be. The thing is, now its slightly flimsly. The string tenson is good but the temolo bridge moves at the slightest touch causeing my tone to wave in and out of tune. I personally hate tremolos. On my last guitar, a fender strat, I put a sanded block of wood in the tremolo cavity to prevent ANY AND ALL tremolo movement, later I removed the wood and just added more springs hold it down tight, looks better with the same affect. Now it can't just add a bunch of springs to the tremolo to keep is down because it needs to be balance in the middle of the gaps on either side of it! My question is instead of just putting two blocks of wood in the cavity, I wonder if there is a more professional way to covert at floyd-rose tremolo into a fixed bridge but keep the oringal bridge on also?
how do I lock a floyd rose so it doen'st tremolo?
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My tuning is B-F#-b-E-G#-C# known as dropped B. I receive my guitar in the mail and it comes in E standard tuning. So I tune it down to B and the balance of the tremolo shifts downward due to the lesser string tension from my tuning. So to fix that I removed one of the 3 springs from the tremolo, and it balanced right back to where it should be. The thing is, now its slightly flimsly. The string tenson is good but the temolo bridge moves at the slightest touch causeing my tone to wave in and out of tune. I personally hate tremolos. On my last guitar, a fender strat, I put a sanded block of wood in the tremolo cavity to prevent ANY AND ALL tremolo movement, later I removed the wood and just added more springs hold it down tight, looks better with the same affect. Now it can't just add a bunch of springs to the tremolo to keep is down because it needs to be balance in the middle of the gaps on either side of it! My question is instead of just putting two blocks of wood in the cavity, I wonder if there is a more professional way to covert at floyd-rose tremolo into a fixed bridge but keep the oringal bridge on also?
My tuning is B-F#-b-E-G#-C# known as dropped B. I receive my guitar in the mail and it comes in E standard tuning. So I tune it down to B and the balance of the tremolo shifts downward due to the lesser string tension from my tuning. So to fix that I removed one of the 3 springs from the tremolo, and it balanced right back to where it should be. The thing is, now its slightly flimsly. The string tenson is good but the temolo bridge moves at the slightest touch causeing my tone to wave in and out of tune. I personally hate tremolos. On my last guitar, a fender strat, I put a sanded block of wood in the tremolo cavity to prevent ANY AND ALL tremolo movement, later I removed the wood and just added more springs hold it down tight, looks better with the same affect. Now it can't just add a bunch of springs to the tremolo to keep is down because it needs to be balance in the middle of the gaps on either side of it! My question is instead of just putting two blocks of wood in the cavity, I wonder if there is a more professional way to covert at floyd-rose tremolo into a fixed bridge but keep the oringal bridge on also?
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I used 35 cents in nickels and duct tape, along with a tremsetter. Stack the nickels, duct tape it to the block and substitute one of the springs for the tremsetter and that should keep it pretty sturdy. also a wood block on the front and back would work if you never wanted to use the Floyd at all...
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Originally posted by hairbndrckrAhw, man! - we're musicians, not mathematicians! :D
I used 35 cents in nickels ...
I ended up milling a brass block to fill the hole under the trem bridge on my '62 Re-issue JapStrat. This situation may call for something similarly drastic.
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Truthfully for the type of tuning you use you really should have gotten a baritone guitar. I know (believe me on this) sometimes it's hard to pass up a good deal on a guitar. I would have saved my pennies a little longer and got one of the new Ibenhad(oops I mean...Ibanez :) ) baritones they got. Or even a Schecter. You'll find with the guitar you bought that tuning down that low will make for sloppy strings. The longer baritone neck would have compensated for that.
So. If you throw a cat out of a car window, is it considered "kitty litter"?
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