brosefstalin
First Lieutenant   Posts: 6 Registered: 8/9/2008 Status: Offline
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posted on 11/24/2008 at 22:18 |
I've got a Strat style whammy bar bridge that came standard on my guitar, a
J3 Phoenix. It hasn't had any problems at all until about two weeks ago
when I tuned the guitar up a whole step from D to E standard, and it was
only a little while after that that I noticed the bridge was being pulled
by the tension of the strings into a bent position to the rest of the body,
maybe being a half cm from it's normal position against the body. I was
slightly confused by this considering I had had the guitar in every tuning
from E standard to Drop-C before this and seen no effect on the bridge, and
The strings I presently have on it are only a little stronger than my old
ones, I think that I went from a 48-10 to a 52-11 gauge set.
I'm not sure if this is, but am worried that it will be a potentially
damaging problem. If the solution is to either down-tune it once more, to
get smaller strings, or to somehow adjust the springs in the bridge, I
would like to do nothing unless I have to. Any suggestions?
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Guitar101
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posted on 11/24/2008 at 23:21, Reply 1 |
Anytime you move up to a thicker gauge string you will have to adjust the
strings on your tremolo "release the tension" to level off the bridge
again.
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Telefreak
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posted on 1/26/2009 at 09:58, Reply 2 |
| Tighten the springs in the back of the guitar to pull the bridge back down ____________________
Technology, not technique
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RossAnderson12
First Lieutenant Posts: 2 Registered: 4/17/2009 Status: Offline |
posted on 4/17/2009 at 14:31, Reply 3  |
I'm having a similar problem as brosefstalin
I've been experimenting a lot recently with detuned tuning
I have a floating bridge (floyd rose copy)
as you downtune the guitar, you have to loosen the screws at the back to
bring the bridge back up
but now I want to be in standard tuning,
I can't really tighten the screws at the back any further, and the bridge
is up really high
and the tuning is still too low
so I'm not really sure what to do about this one
if anyone has any advice it would be greatly appreciated
thanks
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Telefreak
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posted on 4/17/2009 at 19:18, Reply 4 |
Try loosening the stringgs and then re tuning.
Sometimes floyd rose trems need to settle after adjustment ____________________
Technology, not technique
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RossAnderson12
First Lieutenant Posts: 2 Registered: 4/17/2009 Status: Offline |
posted on 4/19/2009 at 07:21, Reply 5 |
I've got my guitar to a state where the tuning is all half a step down with
the bridge being level, so that's an improvement definitely
I'll give it some more tweaking and loosen the strings,
Thanks
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