Special thanks to the great luthier Maurício Bertola, who always answers my questions. NOTE: you should not use vaseline with Elixir strings, or any strings with similar coating. Also, clean the vaseline away from wood parts.
I am in market for this great guitar and with your tip, it has pushed me over edge, I will buy. I love using whammy so important that it stays in-tune. Thank you y muy bien senor.
I had the exact same problem and it was set up issue, after I let someone who has great experience setting up floating bridges set it up, it never goes out of tune. Before it went out of tune while I was actually tuning it. Now it works like a dream.
Hello there! Awesome video!! I would appreciate some guidance here. I am new with the EBMM Majesty, what is the best way to know when the bridge is level? I change strings to 9-42 and I’m having issues with the action and the level of the bridge. Action had to let it a bit higher for my taste because when trying to get it lower it buzz when pulling the bar uptone. And the bridge, the entonation holes must be OUT of the bridge cavity? Or level? Thanks for your help!!!
me ajuda, rodrigo? nessa guita, os caps crunch lab e liquifire que eu comprar deverão ser normal ou F-Spaced? tenho uma olp e quero turbinar ela mas não sei se os caps devem ser normais ou f-spaced =/
Using 8's? Wow. I have the exact same guitar, same color too. I tried 9's and they were too thin in both playing and sound. I use Ernie Ball Cobalt 10's. Great strings. Stays in tune.
I wish there was a video on how to setup these trems and some troubleshooting explanation. My jp15 I cannot get to stay in tune. No one in my area I trust with this guitar so I just decided to send it back and get a refund rather than risk voiding the warranty
evilcowboy Good point. I just got one of these guitars and I’m experiencing-tuning stability Issues. So I’m studying up. I’ve mastered the Floyd systems, but this looks fairly straight forward. It’s just a balancing act really. I know I’ll catch heat for this, but I usually keep my Floyd’s with a very slight backward cant. I find my guitars with Floyd’s rarely ever go out of tune like this. Even with my 14 year old acting like Dimebag. I’m talking just a few degrees. Not burying the hex keys in the rout out. But it has been a bit of a miracle when I discovered this. No, it’s not textbook “level”. But sometimes you gotta go with what works. I’m about to set up my Majesty. If I have tuning stability issues, I will try a slight cant towards the body with this set up as well. I’m usually “by the book” on most guitar stuff. But like I said, my Floyd guitars rarely go out. And the ones that do give me any trouble if any, are the cheap “licensed” or “special “ Floyd’s . But even those have improved stability with a slight tilt toward the body. I guess the additional tension helps? Just my 2 cents.
Basically its the same concept of the floyd, just without the locking nut. And with the added benefit of being easier to intonate. Remember you have to intonate these bridges as well to maintain tuning stability
Vi o seu post no forum da music man!! Estou tendo esse problema na minha fender, somente com a sexta corda, bend, desafina, alavanca afina.. mesmo problema que vc tinha... algum ponto de contato deve estar "agarrando" um pouco a corda na hora de voltar, vou tentar passar vaselina em toda ela hehehehhe.. vc continua fazendo esse esquema com sucesso? Abraço!!
Não tenho mais Music Man, estou tocando com Suhr, mas sim, continuo usando a mesma ideia. Só que no lugar da vaselina estou usando o D'Addario LubriKit. Se continuar desafinando mesmo depois de lubrificar, pode ser que o nut tenha sido mal cortado, aí tem que dar uma lixada leve na base onde a corda senta. Abraços.
A Suhr não precisa lubrificar se você pega leve. Mas se você exagera na alavanca, como eu faço, então tem que lubrificar. Aí não desafina de jeito nenhum. A Suhr é a guitarra mais estável que eu já tive. Abraços.
Because the coating of Elixirs may react chemically with vaseline. For coated strings, use other products like Big Bends Nut Sauce or D'Addario LubriKit (which I'm using these days).
I get what you're saying and agree these bridges are miles better than a typical strat bridge but I believe he was referring to the fact that it's string through block, non locking, individual saddles.
I have exactly this question. After tuning to pitch, when I play or use the whammy bar the strings rarely go back to perfect pitch (using a tunner), they are usually off by a few cents. Is this normal?
What are you doing. This guitar is set up for 10’s your going to have to reset the whole guitar A FULL SETUP not some Vaseline 😂. Truss rod, string height, intonation, nut height. I know I set one up for 9’s but I would not but 8’s on that guitar you can do it but it’s just to light for it’s design inmho.
my man, his statement was correct. It is indeed a stratocaste type bridge (single-locking tremolo system). The other type are floyd-rose type bridge (double-locking tremolo system).
Technically, it IS similar to many Strat bridges, which are not vintage, six-screw types. Fender makes plenty of fulcrum-style tremolos that can be designed to float or rest against the body (original Jeff Beck model) just as Wilkinson makes vintage, six-screw tremolos (VSVG-300) for the Ibanez Andy Timmons signature (higher end) model in addition to what I believe you are referring to...their 50 and 100-series. On a non-related note, as the OP discovered, graphite works wonders for nuts and tremolos. I've been using an exacto knife to scrape graphite from pencil tips into these slots for decades.
