MartinC wrote:Floyd Roses are shit. For ages mine was all lopsided and the strings on one end were really high up while the other were almost touching the neck. I literally had to hammer the bridge into the guitar to fix it.

FUCKING NOOB!!!!!!!

there are allen key adjusters for a reason you know

I daren't buy an axe with a floating bridge because I udnno how to use 'em. Knowing me I'd get pissed off with it and break it hahah.

Also, I'm use to resting my hand on the bridge when palm muting and I struggle to do so with OFRs etc.

As for the custom stuff, try Ran. I dunno if they're a UK company but they make some insane guitars.

or Moser

thrasherdave wrote:Also, I'm use to resting my hand on the bridge when palm muting and I struggle to do so with OFRs etc.

Yeah i used to do the same, got used to it now. Still i do find them needlessly complicated. I don't think i will get a guitar with a FR again.

Have their advantages, but I prefer non-FR bridges!

If for nothing else, the fact that changing strings will take 2 minutes, instead of 20!

thrasherdave wrote:I daren't buy an axe with a floating bridge because I udnno how to use 'em. Knowing me I'd get pissed off with it and break it hahah.

Also, I'm use to resting my hand on the bridge when palm muting and I struggle to do so with OFRs etc.

My brother says he has this problem, i.e. resting your hand on the bridge causing you to unintentionally change pitch. I don't see how it can happen like. The side of my hand never leavs the bridge and I don't get any of it.

zykloned wrote:Have their advantages, but I prefer non-FR bridges!

If for nothing else, the fact that changing strings will take 2 minutes, instead of 20!

Aye, you can get the strings off and a new set on again in 20 minutes or less but it should take you waaaay longer to stretch them in and shit. Fuck being a touring guitarist like, you'd end up spending your life stringing your guitars or face having to pay some twat to do things for you.

That is a fair point. But i never really had that much of a problem having to stretch string too often.

Plus this is my first fr, so i really have to get used to them.

Any reccomended sites i can go on to do some boffining up on them?

upgrade to a nice official floyd rose!

http://www.guitarlodge.com

i haven't been there in a while but any guitar related problems i'd have, i'd ask the nerds over on their forums!

thrash metal maniac wrote:

MartinC wrote:Floyd Roses are shit. For ages mine was all lopsided and the strings on one end were really high up while the other were almost touching the neck. I literally had to hammer the bridge into the guitar to fix it.

FUCKING NOOB!!!!!!!

there are allen key adjusters for a reason you know

I'm not stupid, the guitar has been poorly built and the adjusters actually came out of the holes they were screwed into - hence the hammering.

^^ ahhh, that fucking sucks!!!

Dian Wei wrote:That is a fair point. But i never really had that much of a problem having to stretch string too often.

Plus this is my first fr, so i really have to get used to them.

Any reccomended sites i can go on to do some boffining up on them?

Just ask me man (pm!), I could probably help with any advice or anything, I've been using Floyd Roses for years and know all the ins and outs

And I never get the pitch change problem, and I always rest my hand on the bridge!

I don't even know why I got a guitar with a Floyd Rose, I never do any of that whammy bar shit.

Floyd Rose was the dumbest idea ever. Everyone knows string-through is the real mans way.

Lev - Pulverizer wrote:Floyd Rose was the dumbest idea ever. Everyone knows string-through is the real mans way.

Don't be daft.

String-'thru' guitars are for jessies with no flair. Even Neal Schon used a Floyd for a bit, such is their contribution to the development of Man.

Lev - Pulverizer wrote:Floyd Rose was the dumbest idea ever. Everyone knows string-through is the real mans way.

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Who needs a whammy bar anyway? I ain't Kerry King!

And who wants to be Kerry King?