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[kimball492]

I have to be honest doc I never use trems. DB will verify my dislike for tremelos or as DB calls them string de tuners lol. I don't envy anyone having to set that floyd rose up. It's strange I love to hear guitarist use trems. But as I palm mute a lot. I tend to block them off or fit hard tail bridges. Have you checked the babicz bridges out. Maybe someone will give you advise on the trems more qualified than me.

[Fretworn]

If you are going to put a Floyd on a Strat you should go the whole hog and do a copy of Alan Morse's "Mellotron" Strat


This is a fairly recent pic and he's obviously put a new neck on it and it now has a Fernandez sustainer in the neck pickup slot.

[wokkaboy]

hey Doc page 94 mate, if you put a Floyd tremelo on I reckon you can make it to a century !

[FrankenWashie]

I was thinking about a Schaller trem for the FrankenWashie resurrection, though I think that may be asking for trouble given the already thin body profile (36mm) you can get a 32mm depth block but I'm not sure how much effect this would have on the sound. I am already going to be struggling with pick up depths as it is. we may need to compare notes if you do decide to do the change out Doc.(Who me, padding out Doc's thread?)

[DrNomis_44]

I was thinking about a Schaller trem for the FrankenWashie resurrection, though I think that may be asking for trouble given the already thin body profile (36mm) you can get a 32mm depth block but I'm not sure how much effect this would have on the sound. I am already going to be struggling with pick up depths as it is. we may need to compare notes if you do decide to do the change out Doc.(Who me, padding out Doc's thread?)

Personally, I reckon the shorter (32mm) sustain block should not make a whole lot of difference to the tone, the shorter block I got for my Chrome Schaller Lockmeister Floyd Rose Trem was made out of solid Brass which did have some weight to it, the bridge itself still felt pretty weighty after I installed the shorter block, I reckon what would make a difference to the tone is if you were to put a sustain block made from so-called Pot Metal on the bridge, that would definitely take away some of the tone since Pot Metal is considered inferior.

[DrNomis_44]

If you are going to put a Floyd on a Strat you should go the whole hog and do a copy of Alan Morse's "Mellotron" Strat


This is a fairly recent pic and he's obviously put a new neck on it and it now has a Fernandez sustainer in the neck pickup slot.

So that basically proves that putting a Floyd on a Strat is definitely do-able, I wonder if he has it fully floating or not?.

[DrNomis_44]

hey Doc page 94 mate, if you put a Floyd tremelo on I reckon you can make it to a century !

Well, you know what?, I'm seriously thinking of doing it, I haven't had much success with a traditional style nut and trem system, and this Strat is a custom one I'm building for myself, it's not like it's an uber-expensive 1957 fender Strat.

[pablopepper]

Gotta agree with Kimball, screw the floyd and check out the Babicz if you want an upgrade.

[DrNomis_44]

Gotta agree with Kimball, screw the floyd and check out the Babicz if you want an upgrade.

The thing is, I already have a Chrome Schaller Floyd which I can install on the Strat, getting a Babicz Bridge as an upgrade is going to cost me some extra money, and it's not really going to fix the Sitar-Buzzing issue because I traced the cause to the nut, I had the Sitar-Buzzing issue with the stock plastic nut, the bone nut I used to replace the stock plastic nut, and also with that White Tusq XL nut I made.

[wokkaboy]

but Doc isn't rest of the hardware gold ?

EDIT Doc what is the current tremelo and does it work ok and keep reasonable tune ?