Installing a tremolo on the Kramer Baretta Special using the TremAlone! 

Great piece of kit!! It's very likely someone has already suggested this but here it goes: How about the Tremalone is one single piece (3D printed studs and base) and the holes on top of the studs go all the way, this way, instead of removing the 3D printed studs and drill with a big ass drill bit, you drill with a very small drill bit and the tremalone works as a guide to make sure your holes are perfectly square to the guitar body. Cheers!!!

It's awesome that he has a Steve Vai influence and I can hear it in what he's playing on the guitar. I love Steve Vai's music.

I think your trem jig is really great. The only thing I think might improve it is that you could put a small 1/8 hole through the center of the removable studs. This would give you a more precise centered pilot hole to drill your stud holes. Just a thought. Great idea. I hope you make a million 😊

You are the definition of not all heroes wear capes, when I am feeling a bit more confident, I will attempt this mod!! Will purchase the temalone.

I always been puzzled that Floyd Rose didn't come with something like this, or at least a template of sorts... good one!

First of all, you are a GENIUS. The product I got from your Reverb page arrived quickly and works and looks great! This is a great idea here! I'll be watching you. I can't wait to see what you come up with next! Thanks, and keep up the good work!

That's a neat piece of kit you have there. Great innovation.

You had me at "Questionable Guitar Mods". 😁

IMPRESSIVE playing! Love your style. Sweet jig. I ordered a Vega bridge and locking tuners for my baretta special in candy blue. If only I’d seen this video earlier. Cheers!

Wow mate your little 3d printed jigs are incredible! Amazing work! If I ever desire to "floyd" a fender one day I will definitely be buying this little setup from you!

I used this on my blue Kramer Baretta. I drilled out the bushings carefully. I used a drill press, I'd recommend anyone doing this use a drill press. I also reluctantly routed my body using a compact router. The shims work well, they should be pre-drilled to make it easier. But I'm happy with the install. A machinist can make you hard metal bushings for perfect drilling.

Awesome! Love the Kramer Baretta Special guitars!

Genius and affordable. Ty

Excellently thought out but I must suggest something. At 9:00, you are about to remove the two black studs. If these studs were hollow down through in the center, the installer could use a punch (provided of course) to accurately mark the true center. It would eliminate any guesswork and provide the exact location of the center to be drilled.

Every new guitar that I build, or upgrade, I use the Gotoh 1996t.! I can’t wait to see the next video.!!

I have returned my Baretta at Thomann's when I figured out that instead putting $150 more on accessories, I could buy à B-Stock Kramer vintage for the same price ! The Kramer vintage sounds great and has a factory Floyd Rose tremolo and better locks and nuts.

Nice idea. Hope everyone paid attention that this is specific design to work only on this model guitar.

You did an amazing job on this!!

This was absolutely phenomenal. I honestly think I will try your product.

Fantastic Idea, especially for those that don’t have confidence in their ability to do this kind of upgrade, I have to say though, I really wish you wouldn’t put a bridge and block directly on the front of a brand new guitar with such a beautiful finish 🤣 man I was cringing watching that . 👍🏻

Nice idea. A few suggestions would be to elongate the mounting holes so you have the option to dial in the scale length. You could also press in some 3mm drill bushings in the pull-out studs so you can start a 3mm pilot hole and know you are drilling dead center.

Honestly, a great idea. The only thing I can think of that might make it even better is including a 12mm disk with a hole in it large enough for a center punch or a small drill bit, so those who aren't using 12mm bushings have a really easy way to mark the center for their drill bit.

I’ve got one of these on order Looking forward to doing this to my Barretta Seems like the easiest method

Very nicely done you made the swap to a Floyd Rose look so simple!

I kinda like the pink and gold look

Worth sticking around for the solo at the end.

That gold trem looks great with that guitar

I commend you on a really cool invention for locating the new Tremolo studs but I'm surprised you didn't think to create a router template to perfectly rout the tremolo cavity using a proper router and router bit. It would be easy to print one of those out specially if you figured out how to create and print your first tool. Hope you don't think I'm insulting you, not at all just throwing an idea out in case you didn't already think about it. Routing with a proper template and router will produce a much cleaner cavity and preserve the paint if taped off properly. Love the upgraded Kramer, those guitars kick ass and I really like the tool you created I build guitars and would love to buy one of those! Keep up the great work man!

DUDE! thanks for this video. Thinking about getting another B Special and do this. Thanks again

what a great product

Nice, and the cool ending too ala Vai meets Devin Townsend.

1 minute in and I started looking if you are Greek. Bless the accent

Ordered the Tremalone and the shims!! Can't wait to mod my Baretta!!

Can't wait to get my Tremalone from you, I am going to modify it slightly and move it back so there is no visible tremolo hole behind the Floyd, maybe 3-5mm, I know it will make the scale slightly longer than 25.5 to maybe 25.75

You need to have an 1/8" starter hole in your black mount screws for the Floyd Rose. To center any of the different size body nuts.

Should make the temp studs good for pilot drilling so it would be dead center. Then you can use any other drill bit after that

I will be buying the 3D printed shims, much easier than shaving the head removing the hump and custom cutting a piece of maple shim. Something everyone should do before installing a floyd style top mounting nut is see how far off center the truss rod access is. My Gotoh nut caused the screw to blow out the wood wall of the truss rod groove. I had to make and glue in a custom bridging piece of wood with an arch to clear the Allen wrench access to the truss rod. This could happen even with this excellent 3D printed shim. As the saying goes, measure twice cut once.

slick little jig.

you can actually put a piece of a toothpick into the holes for where the neck connects to the body, to make them act "fresh" and strong again. also I would replace all screws with stainless steel for more sustain.

Dude, that thing is awesome 👌

That is a great idea! I’ll definitely order some next time I do a floyd swap

Beautiful playing, man 🙌

That purple gold and black look amazing though! I bought the white one with the black headstock.

Great idea

okay... this is brilliant...

I was crying a bit seeing you remove that wood without even thinking about the dust getting in the pickup, lol.

i use acetone and Q-tips to get rid of old glue. It's usually CA that's used.

В юности мечтал заиметь гитару "крамер" - мне они казались тогда верхом совершенства. Я стал гораздо старше, теперь мне ближе "стратокастер"😁 Но только бридж чтоб был флойд роуз😆 И да - у этой розовой красотки удивительно приятный сустейн ;) Спасибо за видео.

Good work! Nice solo at the end, too! I´m subscribed.

The stock pickup is hot.

Suggestion. Make the studs on the Tremalone hollow,(3-5mm). Use the tremalone as your drill guide. Enlarge the holes after removal.

Best System ever! Great

You should just make a kit package to order the complete kit with one click!

Glad I stayed til the end, that’s some killer Modal stuff!!!

If you don’t want the chipping on the bottom of the nut heat it up with a heat gun first, then all it takes is one blow to remove it.

This is great if you already have a Baretta special, but for the price if you did not it might make more sense to just buy a pacer classic (only if you didn't already have the baretta special).

This is brilliant!

Great work

tasty soloing, by the way!

excellent video....... good Lydian Mode

Cool, original idea!

Might need to make a disgusting tele build with one of these! Thank you for demoing this!

Great video...ive been wanting one of these guitars since they came out.

What if you made the mount and studs out of metal? Then all you'd have to do is screw the mount to the body and not have to drill holes for the studs. Maybe even mount springs over the studs so they push the bridge back up. Then all you would need is a stopper on the block and no springs hooked to a claw. Hmmm? 🙂

String height at the nut is not an issue with the shim? Good Idea though. Like others suggested. A center hole with the plastic studs would be useful. Nice playing.

If those nut shims were brass that would be the way to go

I so wish this came up on my feed earlier! That nut shim device is genius. Does it also work on Fenders or is it only for Kramer only?

An explanation of the neck shimming process should have been included.

Those 3D printed shims are genius! Would have saved me some headaches when I was trying to install a floyd on my old LTD. Do you think they'd work ok on other models or just Kramers?

how come you didn't need cavity for the FLoyd ? The stump of the neck must be so thick, maybe ...?

Im ordering

Neat gadget!!

Great idea!! What was that loud hum at the end?

Rather expensive parts though?

Wow. I would never sand a new guitar. Maybe a Warmoth body for a parts caster. The tremolo bridges are frustrating compared to Gibson tune-o-matic.

Already did it out a gohto on it

So nice!, but that gap behind the bridge.. I want to do this, but not sure.. may have to do some filler before painting

See a need find a solution, good job.

Ένα 8μηνο νωρίτερα αν το είχες βγάλει θα είχα γλιτώσει τα 45 λεπτά υπολογισμών και μετρήσεων όταν το πέρασα στη δικιά μου χαχαχα! Το shim για το nut έκατσε κουτί πάντως, έχεις κάνει φοβερή δουλειά!

The headstock not having a heel could be a problem.

I would say you could buy a template for like 20 bucks and route out where the floyd goes ,I mean your way probably works ok but if I was going to spend that much time doing this I would just get the template,and your way you can only do dive bombs , I mean my Wolfgang standard is dive only but it's still routed somewhat , and the locking nut is going to be an issue for people that have never done this type of thing because if you mess up where it goes ,new neck anyway I guess if you want to this you can but I would just do it right ,or buy a guitar with a floyd on it

Why does it look like your template is sitting at an angle? One would assume the original routing for the trem block would be perpendicular to the center axis of the neck so when your template seems to not line up... It does seem like the template hits the pickup ring so it might have been a good idea to remove the pickup.

I must add a steak knife to my luthiers tools! 😅👊🏻

Looks cool? The a tion is so good on these neck low and no buzz at all does this raise the Acton more thanks for the vision.

All of the 1980s Kramer Barettas originally had original Floyd Roses. Too bad some of them don't now.

My 2 eldest sons gave me one of these for Christmas a few years ago . Knowing that I'm a big VH fan , they spent quite of money on an airbrush artist to recreate the 5150 guitar . It looks fantastic! However they did not know the importance of having a real trem. I'm absolutely scared to mess up and ruin the guitar and the awesome paint job . This video makes me feel like maybe it can be done . I was wanting the FR detuna tho ... if you see this message , think it will work?

Awesome 🥰

14:28 putting that supplement on the neck pocket doesn't affect the sustain?

what about the gap at the back of the trem? it shouldnt be showing

I've understood everything in this video, its very good but what are those plastic pieces you put inbetween the neck and the body and where can i buy them in the right size/angle?

Did you have to make the trem cavity through the body larger?

Brother, please... 🙏🙏🙏... tell me where you bought that red floyd rose !

Very cool, Sir! Is the Floyd dive only like EVH? Or floating?

Very nice! Μπράβο!

U forgot to show the installation of the string retainer🤔

Do you have a video of the finished baretta yet.

Silent dive bombs😂

parabéns menino!

At checkout it tells me that I have to pay an import duty as the items are shipped out of country. I've had too many issues ordering out of country. That sucks, this looked like a great option. But it's just getting too expensive.

I’m not a big fan of the pink. The gold hardware helps though. Also, you shredded the f*ck out of that thing.