Attention all Floyd Rose users!

[SteveB]

EVH,


This has been discussed before, and it boils down to this:

You can take 'luck of the draw' and you might end up with a premium top. It depends on what piece of wood comes off the pile when they begin making your guitar. If it's premium-looking, you got lucky.

Or, you can pay the extra upcharge and then you are guaranteed a premium top. (Presumably, someone takes the time to find some nicer looking wood for your build, since EBMM doesn't just mass produce guitars-- they wait for an order before they start building.)

Is it worth the extra money? Only you can decide that. If you *must* have the premium top, then pay for it. If you can live without it, roll the dice and see what you get.

 

[Eddie Van Halen]

Ya, looks don't matter to me as much as how the guitar actually plays

thanks alot though i thought there was like, a difference in the finish or something...

I hear when you re-string a Floyd you have to cut the balls of the string off? Why is that?

 

[SteveB]

You've heard that about the Floyd because the bridge piece on a floyd works like an individual vise or clamp for each string.

You cut the ball off the string and then clamp the string in place by tightening a vise-like mechanism that sandwiches the string between two pieces of metal. (Kinda like the trash compactor idea in Star Wars.)

Now, personally, I leave the ball on and run the string backward. i.e. I feed the non-ball end of the string through my tuning peg, then thru the nut, down the fretboard and then pull it tight. The ball will hold the string in at the tuning peg. Then I cut any excess at the non-ball end and insert that end into the floyd's clamping bridge mechansim.

(I leave a little slack so that I can get a few turns on the tuning keys. That way if you break a string near the bridge, you can just unroll a little slack from the peg and re-clamp it.)

 

[Eddie Van Halen]

thats a good idea

Im gonna try it