Excellent resources, information, tones, and chops. Thanks again for doing the research and sharing your finds. You've inspired me to take on my first home built guitar project.
A bit of misinformation in this video: The Floyd Rose, non fine tuning bridge that Stew Mac sells IS the German made original bridge, same as you have installed on your guitar. It comes with the wood screw style posts And the screw in style arm. You don’t have to buy anything separately. The idea is that buying this bridge gives you the old school look and installation, with the wood screw style posts and the original screw in arm, as used in the early 80’s. I use these non fine tuning Floyd bridges on Brad Gillis red Strat replicas that I build. 🤘
@@scanjazz777 Floyd *recently (within the past few months) stopped putting Made in Germany on the bottom of their baseplates. I have purchased several, over the years, and they all had the Made in Germany text. Only the last one I bought, maybe 6 weeks ago did not have the text. As for the wood screw posts? I tend to agree with you, but it depends on the body wood that guitar is made of. If it is softer, then the knurled inserts are more stable. However, if it is alder, poplar, swamp ash, or even mahogany, the woodscrews work just fine, for many, many years. Plus, if you are doing a top mount (EVH style) the wood screws entire length is sunk into the body and it will literally never give at all. I prefer the screw in style arm, just because I'm old school, and it's what I'm used to. As far as function? The screw in, collared or the new push in arms all function exactly the same. The tightest you will ever get any Floyd Rose arm is the screw in, when it is screwed all of the way in. All the others will always have a minute amount of "slop". lol
This was a fun video to watch, but quick question did you have to shim the neck? Planning on installing a non fine tuner floyd rose and I'm not sure if I need to shim the neck.
@@scanjazz777 Any rhythm track without a trem was on the shark so Runnin' with the Devil, You Really Got Me, Jamie's Cryin' (rhythm left channel), Feel Your Love Tonight, and On Fire used the Ibanez
A set of staggered tuners has 2 tall, 2 medium, and 2 shorter height posts. Tallest 2 go in the low E and A, middle height goes on D and G, shortest posts go on the B and high E. Basically what a staggered set of tuners accomplishes is it eliminates the need for a string tree to hold down those B and high E strings. It increases the "break angle" of the strings over the nut and pulls them down into the nut better than straight (non-staggered) tuners. Hope that helps.
Good info, cool build as well. I love my Warmoth roasted flame maple neck. It's probably my favorite neck in the entire arsenal. Cheers!
00:19 EVH raked the strings between the bridge and tailpiece on his Explorer/Destroyer. That's why it doesn't sound right.
Excellent resources, information, tones, and chops. Thanks again for doing the research and sharing your finds.
You've inspired me to take on my first home built guitar project.
Thank you kindly!
Tons of fun to build!
A bit of misinformation in this video:
The Floyd Rose, non fine tuning bridge that Stew Mac sells IS the German made original bridge, same as you have installed on your guitar. It comes with the wood screw style posts And the screw in style arm. You don’t have to buy anything separately. The idea is that buying this bridge gives you the old school look and installation, with the wood screw style posts and the original screw in arm, as used in the early 80’s. I use these non fine tuning Floyd bridges on Brad Gillis red Strat replicas that I build. 🤘
Do they actually say made in Germany? The quality of the seperate posts and arm are superior to the screw in especially when using softer woods imho.
@@scanjazz777 Floyd *recently (within the past few months) stopped putting Made in Germany on the bottom of their baseplates. I have purchased several, over the years, and they all had the Made in Germany text. Only the last one I bought, maybe 6 weeks ago did not have the text. As for the wood screw posts? I tend to agree with you, but it depends on the body wood that guitar is made of. If it is softer, then the knurled inserts are more stable. However, if it is alder, poplar, swamp ash, or even mahogany, the woodscrews work just fine, for many, many years. Plus, if you are doing a top mount (EVH style) the wood screws entire length is sunk into the body and it will literally never give at all. I prefer the screw in style arm, just because I'm old school, and it's what I'm used to. As far as function? The screw in, collared or the new push in arms all function exactly the same. The tightest you will ever get any Floyd Rose arm is the screw in, when it is screwed all of the way in. All the others will always have a minute amount of "slop". lol
@@Metalcop5150thank you, great info!
This was a fun video to watch, but quick question did you have to shim the neck? Planning on installing a non fine tuner floyd rose and I'm not sure if I need to shim the neck.
Yes, I put a shim about the thickness of a business card.
@@scanjazz777alright thanks for the help since I dont wanna have to route the body.
Is the routing for the non fine tuner floyd more similiar to a standard fender trem or to an original floyd rose?
Yes sir.
the Frankenstein wasn't used on runnin' with the devil the ibanez destroyer was
It wasn’t used on your really got me too. Didn’t it become the shark?
@@scanjazz777 Any rhythm track without a trem was on the shark so Runnin' with the Devil, You Really Got Me, Jamie's Cryin' (rhythm left channel), Feel Your Love Tonight, and On Fire used the Ibanez
What does staggered mean in reference to the tuning pegs ?
A set of staggered tuners has 2 tall, 2 medium, and 2 shorter height posts. Tallest 2 go in the low E and A, middle height goes on D and G, shortest posts go on the B and high E. Basically what a staggered set of tuners accomplishes is it eliminates the need for a string tree to hold down those B and high E strings. It increases the "break angle" of the strings over the nut and pulls them down into the nut better than straight (non-staggered) tuners. Hope that helps.
Warmoth is pricey.