Phroz STA-1M, ST-M, TL-1

[phrozin]

here's my latest effort done with bright green colortone dye and clear back and neck is just clear pic's dont do it justice also have another tele and a strat on the go but only to primer stage atm








and almost forgot this one finished

[stan]

these are looking great Phroz - you need a pic with them all together!

[phrozin]

cheers stan have finished the ibanez copy i am assembling it atm but not that clued up on Floyd Rose's haven't got a clue how to set it up looks like a night or 2 on youtube watching vids on them, also doing another strat and a tele which im doing blue pearl and candy apple red on the tele but probably sell them also doing a ibanez SA i picked up that needed some loving in black which is for me.

[christodav]

I'm in the same boat with the wammy on the MM kit I have.It will be interesting.

Chris

[Dedman]

Thats exactly what i had to do with the floyd on my GD. Search 200 youtube vids till I found one that ACTUALLY did a step by step, I discovered I hate Floyds .

[Simon Barden]

In theory, it's no more complicated than setting up a Fender Strat trem. The locking bits are more complicated but it's still fundamentally the same principle. But it's important that you get something to wedge the trem block in a vertical position so that the trem bed is horizontal to the body. If you don't the springs either pull the trem too far down or the strings pull the trem too far up. There's a critical angle beyond which either string or spring tension can't exert enough leverage to pull the trem flat again. So get the trem flat, set up the strings to be roughly in tune then adjust the spring tension so that the trem stays roughly flat when you remove the wedge. You've still got to play about with spring tension and string tuning until it settles down, but once you get it close enough to start with, it's not too bad. I found a lot of swearing out loud helped.

[phrozin]

i found a tutorial from framus guitars was easy enough but the intonation was a bitch to tune in 1st time i did it and had a play and sounded like someone was strangling one of my cats took about 3 hours but got it in the end.

heres the youtube floyd rose set up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN7qF6JLoIc

heres the ibanez copy which is done probably not the best pics

[phrozin]

have finished the clear on the Ibanez SA



heres the strat only a couple coats of blue pearl no clear



and the tele so far needs more coats



still lots to do on them ibanez i am polishing atm so not far off

[Dedman]

You are a building machine mate! Love the blue btw

[Simon Barden]

All looking very good.