Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

[Trypp Powell]

My memory fails me, but didn't Floyd Rose bridges (or perhaps it was kahler) make some units that were tinted a basic color like red, blue, or green. I seem to remember seeing these years ago, and seeing one or two soloist guitars with these bridges on them. I believe it was done about the same time Paiste and some other companies offered color tinted cymbals as well.

[Plazmawine]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

Ive seen Kahler trems tinted in red and painted solid white. Never seen a Floyd tinted/finished with any color other than chrome/black/gold

[LesPaulCustom]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

Yeah...the Kahlers had quite a few different colors if I remember right. They had a full page advertisement at one time with a bunch of different colors.

[Jim Shine]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

Yeah, Kahler had then in anodized colors, but white looks like some sort of paint over chrome.

[xenophobe]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

I thought the Kahlers were poweder coated?

You can take any of your floyds to get powder coated... though it would probably need to be bead blasted first.

A black floyd is all I've really ever needed though, but a blue one might look cool on my blue strat.

[hippietim]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

I have a red Kahler on the Flamer:

[hippietim]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

Another thing to try is Dupli-Color Metalcast. It is designed to spray over chrome and bare metal for things like wheels and engine parts. I got a can of purple and experimented on some guitar parts - it looks really cool. I'm going to pick up some other colors and spray a Kahler this weekend. I'll post pics when I'm done.

http://www.dupli-color.com/products/metalcast.html

[Trypp Powell]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

Thanks for the info and photos. I knew I had seen colored bridges sometime in my life. Tim, please post some pictures after you spray that bridge.

[No Use]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

those colored kahlers were called the Kahler Kolors. I hera they weren;'t that popular and they since discontinued them, back then.

[Jim Shine]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

Schaller made colored tuners at the same time. They kind of suck because the housing is molded hard rubber or plastic and they broke easy.

[hippietim]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

Schaller still makes colored tuners - they are annodized though.

[Joe_Steeler]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

I just cleaned out some old guitar mags and I seem to remember Kahler had red, blue, gold and chrome units.

Joe

[chopper45hd]

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kahlers are so cool. Tim that flamer is nice [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[krimson]

Re: Colored Floyds on a Soloist Guitars

I remember someone posting pictures of a Kramer 5150 replica with a powder coated white floyd from a guitar show.