Bummer - I lost my Floyd Rose trem arm - help?

[GuitaRasmus]

Hi there - I thought I could use some help from you guys. I just got home from a jam at a friends, and when I got home, I realized that the pocket on my gigbag where I keep my Axis' floyd rose trem arm, was open, and the trem arm wasn't to be found.

So - where do I get a new one? I would prefer to get a standard kind (If such a thing fits) because I gig this guitar all the time, and would like to have one before the weekend.

 

[TonyEVH5150]

Contact your dealer/distributor, or contact INTL customer service. They should be able to fix you up.

http://www.ernieball.com/contact/

You could also use the opportunity to change the trem arm to the screw in type.

Chrome Schaller Original Floyd Rose Tremolo Trem Arm - eBay (item 350135470349 end time Dec-10-08 18:53:43 PST)

 

[GuitaRasmus]

Contact your dealer/distributor, or contact INTL customer service. They should be able to fix you up.

http://www.ernieball.com/contact/

You could also use the opportunity to change the trem arm to the screw in type.

Chrome Schaller Original Floyd Rose Tremolo Trem Arm - eBay (item 350135470349 end time Dec-10-08 18:53:43 PST)

Hmmm... Great idea - I actually like that one much better - is it really that easy, to just change the trem arm cylinder?

 

[TonyEVH5150]

Should be able to detach the old trem arm collar, and replace it with this one. You may need a socket wrench to remove the old one. (don't remember what size nut that collar uses). The screw in collar looks like it attaches with an Allen wrench.

 

[GuitaRasmus]

Cool, thanks!

 

[jamminjim]

and definitely don't feel bad about losing a trem arm - heck, a guy down in Florida lost a while EVH in the ocean.
And Michael Bloomfield walked off and left his favorite Les Paul in a bar in Vancouver. He never did recover it.

 

[GuitaRasmus]

and definitely don't feel bad about losing a trem arm - heck, a guy down in Florida lost a while EVH in the ocean.
And Michael Bloomfield walked off and left his favorite Les Paul in a bar in Vancouver. He never did recover it.

Wow - I can't imagine leaving one of my instruments behind - I always carry them myself, and don't leave them in the car with the backline.

Anyway, I went to one of the techs in my town (I actually work as a tech in a guitarstore, but I did'nt have one lying around) to get a Schaller trem arm with the threaded collar. We disassembled the floyd collar, and guess what? Just as I suspected, it didn't fit. It could fit in the hole, but with the holde being sort of a middle ground between square and round, it wasn't a perfect fit, which is bound to cause problems with such a high performance system as a floyd rose, so we put back the original collar. Fortunately, back in my own workshop, I found a perfect replacement arm for the original collar.