Setting Up A Guitar With A Floyd Rose

[The Grapist]

i just got a Randy Rhoads and it's strung with some pretty heavy strings...i want to restring it and change the tuning, how would i go about doing it?

[tee5150ii]

http://www.floydrose.com/originaltremolo.html

[The Grapist]

ok thanks i'll look into it. i got pics posted too it's in hte 56k = Varg thread

[tee5150ii]

Just be sure to go step by step and take your time if you're not familiar with how they work. Take the time to do it right the first time and it'll only get easier.

[The Grapist]

i went ahead anf blocked the trem and pull all of the strings off so i could oil the fretboard

[The Grapist]

HALP!!! i tuned my strings and the floy is lifting out of the recess

[The Grapist]

i'm an idiot... i was tuned an octave too high

[With_Strength_I_Burn]

:rollin

[KH Guitar Freak]

:rollin :|

How did you even tune an octave too high??? I would have thought the string would have snapped first...

[The Grapist]

i'm not sure :rollin but that's my guess as to why the bridge was lifting out. i'm taking it in for a set up though.

[Thrash]

you might have to tighten the 2 bolt/screws in the back of the guitar if you change string gauge and tunings and the truss rod aswell. I'd take it to a tech and watch him do it for you and try to learn and ask him questions. Thats what I did and now im teh master of floydz :)

[The Grapist]

that's my plan Thrash...check my NGD thread for pics...you'll know which one.

[Azrael416]

Lucky, there are plenty of videos on youtube. Check em out.

[The Grapist]

thnks Az, i took it to the shop i bought from and got a good deal on the set up, but broke a string like an idiot trying to tune it.

[fuzzymuffler]

that's my plan Thrash...check my NGD thread for pics...you'll know which one.

:confused:

[The Grapist]

:confused:


it's already been figured out. let it die now.

[soulfly38]

Were the new strings the same gauge?

[The Grapist]

no, 11 to 53 GHS boomers. there were 11 to 70's on it when i got it. i took it in to have it set up by the shop i bought it from. and due to the strings, the tech ahd to add a spring and torque down the screws that hold the spring retainer.

[Grin]

block the bridge :)

[andrei]

it's good to have it set up by a pro.
but i also think it's a thing you need to know how to do it yourself.

i'm very picky with setups... so every setup someone else did for me, i've redone myself.
(guess they weren't real pros either)

[Dmann]

I used to do it myself when I was young and unemployed. I find it easier now to just get a tech to do it, also getting everything cleaned up, oiled and lubed every time = longer lasting strings, plus a tech does it for a living so it goes to say he can easily do it in 1/2 the time it would take me, and it's done right every time.