Axis SS/HH Vint. Tremelo Adjustment

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I touched on this in my pickup height thread, but thought I would post again. My Vintage 2 point tremelo rests flat on the body of my guitar. Most 2 point tremelo set-up guides that I have read say to have the front edge 1/16" above the body, and slightly higher in the rear for a "floating" trem. I know that if a string breaks, the tuning goes south. My rt650 Ibanez is set this way, and does well. Anybody else have their bridge set to float? Thanks, Bryce

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[bing4sons]

Timely post

I just took my Axis SS in for a setup for this very reason. A couple of times when I broke a string, the guitar came out of tune so badly, that I had to stop playing.

I decided to perform a set up on it myself. I set it up, like the FAQs suggest, as a floating bridge. However, the FAQs say not to tighten the springs too much. I always get nervous the 1st time working on something when someone makes a statement like this.

My setup helped somewhat, but I wanted someone that had experience setting up tremelos to look at it. The references I was looking at said to play the open low E string and bend the G string at the 12th fret. The E note should only go slightly flat. Without experience setting up a tremelo, I didn't know how flat "slightly" flat is.