Hey guys, I've been a member here for a while, but haven't really posted all that much. I have done a lot of reading here though. I picked up a used RR1 a few days ago. I got a great deal and the guitar was hardly played at all. One problem... I brought it to my tech, had it setup, brought it home.. The Floyd had pulled up quite a lot... Brought it back, went home, same thing. My tech couldn't figure it out. The guitar itself is perfect but he felt like maybe the springs were to worn out to keep tension on the bridge.. So I blocked it. Anyone else run into this issue? And are we correct by thinking its the springs in the tremolo cavity??
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Ran into a road block with my new RR1..
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Oh yeah I've been using Floyd's for years. It's kind of hard to explain. When I first arrived home, I plugged into the tuner and it was WAY out of tune. This is strange because the guitar left the shop in tune and perfect. When I tuned the guitar to the proper tuning that it was setup for, boom. Up comes the bridge. Which is deffinetly not normal..
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To me it means it was not set up properly in the first place then. Start from scratch. Stretch the strings, play it for a bit with the nut off, and make sure it stays in tune with the nut off, then clamp it.
It is exactly what happens when it is not set up right, the bridge will continue to pull up and it goes in an endless cycle. Seen people do it many times.Last edited by Trem; 03-21-2012, 05:31 PM.
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Maybe the coils of the springs are getting caught on the edge of the trem route (between the spring portion and the block portion of the trem route). Or maybe, if you brought it home in a hardcase with the trem bar attached to the guitar, then perhaps the bar got pushed down, slackening the strings, then when you open the case up the new strings suddenly go taught but not quite to the degree that the were stretched, I.e. : maybe proper string stretching requires more time in state than what they got between getting put on and when you put the guitar into it's case - just a wild guess but makes a good story. Could also be gnomes.
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There's two different issues being diagnosed here: worn springs will cause the trem to bend forward, loose/not-stretched strings will cause the trem to bend backwards. Which one is it?
"Up" and "down" are relatively objective, but usually "down" refers to "forward" (since you also go in that direction when pressing "down" on the bar, the note goes "down" in pitch, etc), and "up" refers to "back" as in "pull-up".I want to depart this world the same way I arrived; screaming and covered in someone else's blood
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