That old Flatback Tremol Brace will be useful as soon as you no longer have it. I used to put pennies between the body and the spring stem, take off the strings and put the new ones on, tune up and take the pennies out. That bridge design is a surprisingly stable system one you get it set up, the intonation adjustment is another story.
So, now you have to take off the back plate and put it back on when changing strings. This thing is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. I just hold the bar down, and loosen the the nuts on the trem. The strings pop right out
Careful on some guitars that if you predrill that you don't go through into your pickups. I installed something like this that returns the bridge back to dead 0. Its about the same size and nearly went right into a Duncan. Best to remove the pickup just in case if you think it might hit one.
@gerdhery so is the purpose only for easy string changes and downtuning? I'm not following how or if it could let you go from ( dive only ) to ( free floating ) on any tuning because the bridge level would change on downtuning while free floating
It's pretty cool. I suspect they could improve the design by putting a felt pad or rubber tip at the end of the metal stopper, to prevent that knocking sound it makes when you release it a little too abruptly, seems like it could be heard in a recording.
Something stickin' in my eye. I immediately thought of NOFX when you said that and then seconds later, you dropped it like a bomb. Most Triumphant, Dude!
This looks like you are making a mountain out of a molehill. It takes me about 15 minutes to change strings on a fully floating floyd rose and about 7 minutes to change strings on a "blocked' floyd rose. IT's really not as hard as you want it to be.
Thanks, it was my Main Guitar from 2016-2018 and I used it in a ton of shows and rehearsals. It was about €700,- at Thomann. Now it's my "Test-Guitar" for downtuned stuff and it worked pretty well with the Hardtailer too.
We need something that can lock the trem in place for stuff like double stop country style bends Without affecting the tuning and then unlocked to regain full use of the Floyd or whatever manufacturer you have Maybe some kind of locked by default system that becomes free once you start to depress the bar Then maybe a manual re-locking feature Don’t know
I have used the tremol-no on some of my Ibanez with floating bridges, it works great you can set it to fix the bridge or also configure to allow dive only. It locks/unlocks with a turn off a knob.
2:15 - If "that's what she said"....I definitely wouldn't repeat it.....especially on Utube !!! 🌭 You're choice of tools like the knife and the power drill has me cringing! All jokes aside, thanks for the video and the tips.