floyd rose strats

[tom]

Hi All,

Has anyone had any luck retrofitting a floyd rose tremelo onto a strat body? I've been thinking about tinkering around on an old squier and adding a floyd rose, but looks like I'd either have to rout the guts out of the body or try and hunt down a pre-shaped body... anyone had any experience with this?

Cheers,

Tom

[dingobass]

It's doable, all you need is the correct routing template and hold your tongue in the right place

[keloooe]

It's doable, all you need is the correct routing template and hold your tongue in the right place

While balancing on one leg of course!

[jarrod]

Definately possible but as DB says it will need routing and so will your nut recess for a locking nut. I would expect you will need to respray the entire guitar again for a proper job.

[DrNomis_44]

Apparently it is do-able, I seem to remember reading somewhere that Floyd Rose, the inventor of the system, designed it as a retrofit for a Stratocaster, Stewmac sell some special routing templates for routing the Trem cavities:

http://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools...Templates.html

[Worzel]

Oh, it's definitely "do-able!" I did it about twelve years ago. I didn't have templates just measure twice cut once! I'll have to dig it out and take a picture. At the end of the day it's just a Strat with a Floyd rose!

[DrNomis_44]

At some stage I'm going to get a mate of mine to install a Floyd Rose Trem system on my PRS SE Custom 24 guitar as I really don't like the stock trem that's on it because I only have to rest my hand on it and it throws the guitar out of tune.

[dingobass]

Thats the problem with most trems... If not all of them.

[keloooe]

Nah rest your hand on the saddles of a Floyd and it's fine!

[DrNomis_44]

Thats the problem with most trems... If not all of them.

As it is, the stock trem on my PRS SE Custom 24 is practically unusable, the strings randomly end up being either too sharp or flat after I use the trem, also, the trem arm has a nasty habit of coming out of the socket, I've tried all the usual fixes, replaced the original tuners with lockers, lubricated all the string slots in the nut, tried checking the trem setup, nothing fixed it, hence the reason for the Floyd Rose trem installation.

And trying to tune each string accurately to pitch is an exercise in frustration.