This allows the strings to pull the block forward and float. You will need to go back and forth re-tuning the guitar and either letting out the spring claw or tightening it until the bridge base plate is floating correctly. On a blade-style bridge base plate, you will go through the process of re-tuning. Either tighten or release the spring claw until the entire base plate is floating off of the body parallel to the top. After the bridge is floating properly, you will probably notice that the string action has raised slightly.
The back edge of the bridge comes up, and the strings pull the bridge off of the body. They should both assert the same amount of tension to hold the trem where you want it. Again, this is why you need to use strings that are fresh and fully stretched out. If you are unsure about how high your bridge should be floating off the body of the guitar, a quick internet search for some online dimensions and specifications on the model of bridge. You will often find that you need to repeat the tuning, string stretching and spring adjustment a few times to get the perfect balance.
This is normal, so expect a few rounds of the process. Guitar strings will stretch and you need to account for this stretching in time that occurs. With a Floyd Rose or Ibanez Edge style locking tremolo system, the process is almost exactly the same as above. The key difference is that you will need to lock the nut down to finish off the process. Once you do this, you might find that your guitar has gone slightly sharp.
To avoid that, make sure the tension bar is low enough to keep the strings in place. It is the bar with two screws that is placed behind the locking nut and its job is to keep the string tension where you want it. Tighten it to sharpen the pitch of all the strings, or loosen it to lower the pitch of them all. String Torque at A They bend and stretch and then return to shape. The idea is to have them all return at the same time right? Match them as closely as you can.
This is the very first thing you do when setting up a floating trem. Everything else you said was great. Try matching your string gauges. It makes a huge difference to stable tuning.
On the whole I agree with where you are coming from. Almost all of those things have to do with the trem part that go into the guitars body. Like the studs that most trems float on. Those are probably the thing that get ruined the most and require a professional to fix.
Especially if the wood gets stripped and they no longer will stay in place in the body. People need to be careful when adjusting these. Especially the ones that go directly into the body rather than an insert which will help avoid this problem.
Also take time to notice where you are setting your tools. No option is right or wrong, they present different pros and cons and the best option will depend on your own personal style of playing and preference for feel. Darrell Braun has a great video where he goes into detail with side by side comparisons for each of these three setups.
Watch the video below to dispel the myths and answer some questions especially regarding sustain and trem configuration. Second best is decking the trem, and the least amount of sustain will come from setting your trem up to float. The reason for this is because the blocked trem allows for more string vibration to enter the body of the guitar.
This conservation of energy results in the string vibrating longer. I want to ask a different question however. Does slightly longer sustain in an electric guitar really matter? Typical rhythm guitar strums notes and chords way before they fade out naturally.
Lead playing uses even less long notes that ring until they fade. No one is going to tell you that more sustain is a bad thing in a guitar. A floating tremolo means that the bridge is balanced between the tension of the strings, and the tension of the bridge springs. The bridge pivots around the attachment point either two posts as in the modern bridge type or 6 screws in the vintage style, see below for examples of Strat bridge styles which is the only physical connection the bridge has to the body of the guitar.
The vibrations have only a tiny surface area in which to be transferred into the body of the guitar. A floating tremolo also means that you can bend notes both down loosening the string and up tightening the string. Jeff Beck is a great example of this. His bridge is set up quite high allowing for a whole step of upward bend on the first string. My floating trem on my Ibanez just started doing that out of the blue.
I had to back the tension off of the claw in the trem in the back. Block it so that the trem bridge was flat as described above with the PostIts - I used a AAA battery with electrical tape wrapped around it to get it to desired thickness , then tune the strings.
Then slowly re-tension the claw with the guitar on it's side until the battery fell out on it's own. Took about 10 minutes once I knew what I was doing. There are a lot of youtube vids on it showing how to do it. Ravenmore , Oct 12, Age: 62 Messages: 31, Messages: 3, New guitars will def need some "string path lube" and most don't. That'll tackle keeping the strings in tune.
Age: 60 Messages: 4, Never used a lube on any of my guitars. It is a balance to initially get it tuned, but should stay in tune well once set up. If set up correctly, it may be go a bit sharp or a bit flat sometimes, depending on temp or humidity, but one or two quick passes with a tuner and should be good to go. Mine stay in tune incredibly well. Having said that, I do semi block the trem if I'm going to gig.
I can still dive, but can't raise the trem. I do this only because if you break one string while playing on a floating bridge, the rest will go out of tune and I just never wanted to risk that while playing live.
I have small rubber sticky pads I can insert on the front of my trem block and then I tighten the spring claw to make sure it stays if I lose tension from a broken string. When done, I loosen the screws back and remove the rubber pads and I have a full floating bridge again. Miotch , Oct 12, Bera , Inverness and abnormaltoy like this. My decked Strats hold the tuning for weeks, so the floating ones do. It's a matter of proper setup and string winding and stretching.
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