Floyd Rose Guitar

[MichaelLitvak]

holy crap ....... just sell all your guitars.. that should be enough to buy you a descent made in u.s guitar XD

[fett]

I have 4 USA guitars. 2 Fenders and 2 Kramers. They are very nice. But just because they were made in the US of A doesn't make them my favs. Just got an Email from my dau-in-law. Looks like I bought it right from under her. She was about ready to go pick it up. There is justice in the world.

[toejam]

@ Toejam
not all floyds have brass blocks, I know, I had to shorten 2 blocks and it would have been much easier if it would have been brass )

I thought really older ones weren't, but the newer ones should be, no?

[hippietim]

ofr id buy the guitar just for the trem....... fett i do believe you are out of control.... but then again what 79 guitars right?

you don't want one of the import speedloader trems.

[fett]

My understanding is Floyd Rose did not license out the Speedloader for knockoffs. I hope I'm right.

[MountainDog]

I have a BC Rich NJ ASM with factory speedloader as well as the Jackson USA SL1 w/speedloader, so in theory I have an import and a USA one. My issues with the BC Rich are more related to the neck feel and overall construction of the guitar. I didn't have any complaints of the trem.

The guys at floyd rose are pretty good on communication. You could call them or email them and ask them questions on any differences in import vs. usa on the trem.

[fred dons]

the import speedloadertrem is made by ping but it still says original floyd on it and techically it is not really a licensed (but it's no schaller) the problem (as I understood it) with the import speedloader was with the tremposts and those are easy to replace
de ping is supposed to be made to exact specifications comparable to the schaller but I have to little experience with the Pings to give a fair comparison

[fett]

Are you talking about the trems that say: "Original Floyd Rose".? The "Speedloader" is a whole new concept. (A few years ago.) And everything I have found says that regardless of whether it's a Redmond (USA) or a Discovery (Yes Ron, China ) it's a Floyd Rose and not a licensed version. For $129 it's not like I sold my firstborn son to buy it. And by the way. The trems that shoot the strings up the long screws in the trem are referred to as "Speedloaders". It's not the same thing.

[Norton]

Fett,


Why don't you sell all your cheapo guitars and start-up a cheapo guitar business?

[Sanctuary]

I played one of the BCR ones...Yuck!

[hippietim]

I played one of the BCR ones...Yuck!

that is bcr's fault

[JACKSONFREAK]

I like the necks on the Discovery series. They feel great. Some new pups and they can scream. Im just not crazy about the open headstock design. You can get them with a regular Floyd now too instead of the speed loader and use hwateber strings you want. The ones the use for the speed loader are made by Dean Markley. Not that thats a bad thing. I use markleys i just dont like the speedloader thingy.. lol
Gil

[kelly user]

I like the necks on the Discovery series. They feel great. Some new pups and they can scream. Im just not crazy about the open headstock design. You can get them with a regular Floyd now too instead of the speed loader and use hwateber strings you want. The ones the use for the speed loader are made by Dean Markley. Not that thats a bad thing. I use markleys i just dont like the speedloader thingy.. lol
Gil

dude i was tempted to take a saw to the head stock, right where the speed loader nut ends, i think it look cool:ROTF:

[CharvelRocker]

dude i was tempted to take a saw to the head stock, right where the speed loader nut ends, i think it look cool:ROTF:

A Stein-Rose Discovery?

[fred dons]

@ Fett
yeah I now the difference between the speedloader and the original
this is my speedloader tele (the tuners on the headstock are just for the looks)

http://www.pixum.nl/members/freddons/?act=a_view&album=440038&i_pos=24&page=3&ktw=431f79b409233842eb8104b68b1b45b2

I talked to the sales guys of floyd on the Frankfurtemesse and to Schaller and when the Speedloader was introduced Schaller did not have a working copy for sale yet only the prototype, whereas BC Rich already had an import guitar with the speedloader on it and. Floyd explained that these where made by Ping to the exact specifications as the one Schaller were going to build. The Ping optically looks exactly the same as the Schaller (both brush script speedloader) only the trem block looks different. these days Ping also makes an "original floyd" for the "normal" import floyd rose guitar and agin visually they look exactly the same (minus the toplock which basically looks like shit)
here you can find the ping made OFR

http://www.meanstreetguitars.com/floyd_rose_tremolo.htm