How to shim your Floyd Rose bridge

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Matt Cowan

Жыл бұрын

This is how I came up with a better way to shim the saddles on my Schaller double locking tremolo

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@djoyce777 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to share what you discovered. Great explanation.. I'm looking forward to trying this

@GaryAlexanderMusic 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic! Finally after years of fighting my old Kramer, I now have a fix for it. Thanks so much!

@ThrushCZX 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was of some help!

@Heartkiller999 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, didn't even know the saddles had a radius to them! Haha, the more you know! Cheers.

@trekbsg 7 ай бұрын

Very innovative.🎸

@NickPerezMusic 7 ай бұрын

Super helpful, thank you Matt!

@raymustaine3274 3 ай бұрын

Sir!!! You are a genius!!! Thanks for sharing 😊

@charlesb7831 5 ай бұрын

Or you can match up the double screw holes on the factory shim and drill them and will work too. I just installed a complete Schaller tremolo system on an old Peavy EXP Vandenberg model and went through all this. I added Titanium saddle blocks and screws with the brass big block from Fu-tone , fantastic set up!

@muhammadsyis713 Жыл бұрын

nice bro, good idea👍🏻

@megalove_music 9 ай бұрын

fascinating! Thanks!

@eamonahern7495 7 ай бұрын

I had the opposite problem on my Floyd. The thread sheared in the back of the B string saddle when I was doing a restring. The bolt was ok though. I ordered a set of saddles online but they were different to the ones on the guitar. They were too high. I tried putting them on anyway but it didn't work. The bridge on the guitar is a Jackson by Floyd Rose. My guitar is a JS32 Randy Rhoads. I forget what type the saddles I ordered were. I ended up ordering a second hand Jackson Floyd from reverb because I couldn't get just the saddles themselves. At least now I have spares for everything except the B saddle. But anyway, your video gives me information that's good to know just in case.

@scottchilds5726 3 ай бұрын

Perfect, tin foil also.

@01theuser 6 ай бұрын

I think for the fine tuners to work correctly you'll need to cut the shim plate only as long as the shortest and longest of saddles after intonated .

@ThrushCZX 6 ай бұрын

Fine tuners work just fine - they have full travel in both directions.

@satchrules101 9 ай бұрын

We hat if u only need one lowered.. how would this work ?

@ThrushCZX 9 ай бұрын

For something like that you'd want to use individual shims, one per saddle and just don't raise up the one that needs lowering

@lousekoya1803 Ай бұрын

Brilliant !! Is thiis a top mount no routing for a Strat ?

@ThrushCZX Ай бұрын

Yes. It’s actually on a Warlock, but that had a traditional 6-screw strat-style trem on it that I replaced with this

@lousekoya1803 Ай бұрын

@@ThrushCZX Thanks so much !

@dimsycortana1999 2 ай бұрын

Thickness shim??? 0.15mm??!

@Stewbert_72 3 ай бұрын

How do you convert it to 16 in?

@ThrushCZX 3 ай бұрын

I’ve never had to, but you raise the inner saddles to create a rounder radius, so you’d raise the outer saddles to create a flatter one like 16”. Of probably start by raising the A and B saddles a little, and if needed the outer two E saddles too