Guitaraholica2004

The Speedloader is a really great system that Floyd Rose has come up with. I would get one, myself, however, I only see one tradeoff, and that is the fact that I have to stop using the brand of strings I usually use and start using the Speedloader Strings made by Floyd Rose, and that's something I am just reluctant to do. I have been playing guitar for a year now, and I have made only four string changes (each of them individually) before I finally decided to get a full set of strings. The strings my axe came equipped with only lasted me a month, and once I noticed that my high E string was thicker than my B string, that's when I KNEW I had to change my strings COMPLETELY! My first set of Strings was a 11-50 set of GHS Boomers. I screwed up in changing the strings (at this time is when I first learned how to restring a guitar myself), so I ordered an 11-52 DYL gague set of GHS Boomers, which had the G-String wound just like the last three strings, somewhat like acoustic guitar strings. Those things lasted me a good three months, and when my G-string finally decided to give out and break on me, the timing was perfect, because the Zakk Wylde signature gagues of GHS Boomers were released right around that time (10-60 for the normal Zakk Wylde Boomers, and 11-70 for the low-tuned Zakk Wylde Boomers). As a matter of fact, the release of those two gagues coincided with the week of my 19th birthday. I bought two sets of each from the web, and my local music store carries the 10-60 Zakk Wylde Boomers, and those are the strings I use today. Now the Speedloaders are out, and I know I want a Floyd Rose! The ABSOLUTE Last thing I want to do is switch brands of strings. I don't know what kind of strings the rest of you use, but GHS Boomers have been my best friends for almost as long as I have had my guitar! I don't plan on getting a set of another company's strings. That's why I'll just get the Original Floyd Rose on my axe first, and wait until other companies start making strings for the Speedloaders (and I happen to be waiting on GHS to make another line of their Boomers designed for Speedloaders), and if that doesn't happen, then I'm waiting about 17 years to get a Speedloader Bridge.

I'm going to try clamping for a WEEK! Maybe even a MONTH! The neck on my Epiphone Flying V just cracked where it meets the body. Fortunately, the Fretboard didn't crack with the rest of the neck. I'm going to clamp it for a week at the very least. As long as you have another axe to play while the other is clamped, you shouldn't have much of a problem. That's why I'm getting my Epiphone Flying V neck fixed FIRST, so that I have an axe to play while I take my Ibanez GRX20 in to get a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo installed on it (re-routing on the bridge area and re-cutting around the neck area may be done by me).

I read the site's "Repairing A Cracked Neck" tutorial, and It was somewhat helpful. However, on my Epiphone Flying V, the neck is had broken off right at where the neck connects to the body, and there is no crack at the headstock. This poses a problem for Neck-Thru's, because unlike Bolt-Ons, where you can EASILY find a replacement neck and just attach it to the body, such is not the case with Neck-Thru, because the neck is merged with the body, and my Flying V is no exception. The headstock on mine is slanted at a 13 degree angle, too. Will the "Repairing a Cracked neck" tutorial work in my case, and are there any special clamps I need to use? By the way, I checked my Fretboard, and it doesn't need to be replaced. It's still intact, and it did not crack along with the neck.