Bridge Flutter

[1206]

Hi!!

My Luke ll has a wiered problem!!

It is set up for standard floating with 2 springs i V using D'addario XL120 09-42. messured from the top of the body to the top of the bridge plate, right next to the two ajustment screws the bridge is raised aprox 1/8"..

Now! for some reason without me having done any changes to it, the flutter effect has disapeared?
I can't figure out why, cos everything else workes as it should!!

Pls... Help..

 

[beej]

What do you mean exactly? Any floating bridge should be able to get the "flutter"/"warble" when you hit a string hard or bang the bridge slightly - the bridge system will oscillate a bit as it returns to equilibrium.

So it floats, but you just can't get it to "flutter" like that?

 

[1206]

Excatly!
That's the problem.... It floats but won't flutter/wobble????
guess that the bridge plate has turned flat in the two mount gabs,
I don't know???

 

[beej]

Hmm ... how much can you raise the bridge? The Luke pulls up a 3rd on the G, I think, from the setup. Perhaps you're too close to the body and it's being dampened?

 

[1206]

No that's not the problem...
I can pull it up 1 1/2 note on the G string, (G to A#)
1 note on the B string, and a 1/2 note on the E string...
I think that's the factory standard??

 

[1206]

WOW! just checked out your gear fotos...
Man your Luke looks nice compaired to mine!
Yours has a really nice birdseye neck mine is more moderate...
How old is the guitar? mine I guess is a 2002, bought in 2003!!

funny thing with mine is also where your wammy arm has a black plastic tip mine doesn't, it's just all metal... ?
mine also came equiped with 3 springs.. Weired HU??