Some questions about Floyd Rose tremolo

[Alchool]

Hi all, there is another couple of stupid questions from your friend Alchool:

1) If make a recessed route for floyd rose bridge, will I need to angle the neck on a neck-through guitar?

And now this is the most stupid question:

2) How do I insert the studs?

Ok, you can stop laughing now

[Brian]

1. Nope, you will need to have an angled headstock though.

2. Drill just a hair smaller than the diameter of the trempost anchors then press fit them in. A little force is ok, but there really should not be a need to gorilla style hammer them in

And no question is stupid thats how we learn

[86barettaguy]

why would he have to angle the headstock?

[vh-guitarstore.com]

you dont have to angle the headstock....you just have to have some angle between the nut and tuners which most guitars have around 5-10 %

[Guest AlexVDL]

Couldn't you just use a retainer bar?

[Alchool]

That would not be a problem because I just was thinking of making an angled headstock, and I have a retainer bar too.

[vh-guitarstore.com]

using a retainer bar will help...thats basically what peavey does to get around the angle issue on the wolfgangs, which have almost no natural angle

[Guest AlexVDL]

I use the retainer bars on all my floyd rose guitars, with or without angled headstock. I have noticed that the curve in the toplock is too much, even with angled headstocks. If you don't use a retainer bar, the strings won't go along the curve but hang a bit over it at the side of the headstock. This way you will push the strings down when tighten the lockscrews. This causes the strings to badly detune!

My english isn't that well, so here's a pic to explain.

[Scott Rosenberger]

The Ibanez Satriani's dont have angled headstocks

[Guest AlexVDL]

But they do have string retainers

[westhemann]

alex is right,i do the same thing on my sabre.but some guitars don't have angled locking nuts(fernandes for example).you have to have the retainer just right or it will raise in pitch.by the way alex your english is better than alot of americans i know.

[westhemann]

i just took a closer look at my fernandes,it too has an angled locking nut. d'oh!